Saturday, March 23, 2013

Rubbish bales installed in art gallery

An artist has placed nine large bales of rubbish among the classical paintings at a Liverpool gallery.

The 1m (3.2ft) bales, part of Robyn Woolston's Strangers In A Strange Land, are made of around three tonnes of discarded plastic packaging. The artist said she wanted people to consider "what it is they are leaving behind".



The Liverpool-based artist said the bales had been placed to reflect the grid of the gallery's ceiling and were intended to make viewers consider both the waste they produce and the "waste they become" when they die.

"By existing, we create waste and at the same time, we are heading to our end point," she said. "So I'm asking people to consider both aspects and what it is they are leaving behind." Strangers In A Strange Land is on show in the gallery until 23 June.

1 comment:

fred said...

"And then all the people laughed at the naked king." This so-called artist has everyone fooled by a bunch of b.s.