Neerja Palisetty | The Geography Of Consumption | Hand-woven newspaper-Installation | 6.5 x 1 M & 62 x 14 In | Set of 2

“The Geography of Consumption”

The Geography of Consumption examines the invisible landscapes shaped by modern consumer culture. Using hand-woven newspaper fabric as its primary material, the installation transforms fragments of information into tactile landscapes of movement, memory, and contradiction.

Newspaper, a medium that constantly records urgency, consumption, and noise, is slowed down through the art of weaving. Headlines, advertisements, and printed matter lose their immediate function and are reassembled into layered surfaces that speak of accumulation, repetition, and excess. These woven structures become metaphors for the absurdity of contemporary existence: directions that confuse journeys that loop endlessly, and spaces where certainty dissolves.

By translating consumption into geography, the work questions how value is assigned, how resources circulate, and how identities are increasingly shaped through patterns of buying, discarding, and replacing. Familiar yet distorted, the installation becomes both a record and a critique of contemporary living.

At the intersection of craft and sustainability, the piece reclaims discarded material as material memory—suggesting that what we consume also, inevitably, consumes us.