Installation on the theme of "Power of Greed". Garbage and found objects, overdrawn photo.Garbage, carlessly thrown away, found objects (objets... Read More
Installation on the theme of "Power of Greed". Garbage and found objects, overdrawn photo.
Garbage, carlessly thrown away, found objects (objets trouvés - surrealist) picked up from the street, car and computer parts, discarded items, the Coke can - the 'icon' of Western consumption.
These installation represent the garbage western industrial state in Africa, where youn people, children browse often toxic dumps in order to earn a little money wiht metals, and thus endager their health.
Garbage that contaminates people and the earth in Africa. _Western prosperity and African poverty contrast.
The discrepancy: Western countries, on the one hand polluting Africa with their garbage, on the other hand their attempts to fight hunger und disease.
The old zinc garbage can is used as a container for our garbage. The table frame - the framework that our throwaway society provides for rubbish, for hunger in Africa? In a warning triangle the overdrawn photo of an african 'hungry child'.
Greed (of the industrialized countries shaped by materialism) contrasts wiht hunger in Africa. Greed doesn't make you feel full, greed makes you hungry.
