Overfilled

Overfilled is a site-specific public installation that brings two large, openable garbage bins into focus, objects that, while part of our daily lives, often remain unnoticed. One bin is wrapped in shimmering emergency foil, the other in natural sheepskin. The contrasting materials create a symbolic tension between contemporary patterns of overconsumption and the fading presence of natural and human values.

The emergency foil, commonly used in crisis situations to protect refugees or the homeless is ironically transformed here into a “rescue device” for consumer society: a dazzling, reflective surface that conceals the vessel of waste, the end product of excessive consumption. The second bin, covered in sheepskin, evokes proximity to nature, primal human existence, warmth, and tactile materiality, grotesquely juxtaposed with the notion of disposal and abandonment.

By placing the work in a park, the installation directly engages the everyday environment, inviting passersby to confront the environmental and collective consequences of consumer habits. The wrapped containers also suggest the desire to hide or aestheticize reality: surface shine or softness cannot conceal the fact that our production of waste is growing at an unsustainable rate.