Swaantje GüntzelMICROPLASTICS II / Portrait
Portrait of the artist covered with microplastic particles that she had collected in the frame of an intervention ("Microplastics") realized in 2016. During three hours she sat at Playa de Montaña Bermeja/Lanzarote and cleared 1 squaremeter of microplastics. 1370 pieces were counted.
The work was later used in the campaign "In your face" by Ocean. Now! -> https://ocean-now.org/inyourface/
..and was just recently featured in the scientific paper "Revealing the Invisible: Marine Plastic Waste and its Effects in Science-Inspired Visual Art" by Silvia Kurr as a case study (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1474/1/012018
[Swaantje Güntzel, Microplastics II, 2016, Diasec, 120 x 80 cm]
Foto: Henriette Pogoda
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Portrait of the artist covered with microplastic particles that she had collected in the frame of an intervention ("Microplastics") realized in 2016. During three hours she sat at Playa de Montaña Bermeja/Lanzarote and cleared 1 squaremeter of microplastics. 1370 pieces were counted.
The work was later used in the campaign "In your face" by Ocean. Now! -> https://ocean-now.org/inyourface/
..and was just recently featured in the scientific paper "Revealing the Invisible: Marine Plastic Waste and its Effects in Science-Inspired Visual Art" by Silvia Kurr as a case study (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1474/1/012018
[Swaantje Güntzel, Microplastics II, 2016, Diasec, 120 x 80 cm]
Foto: Henriette Pogoda
#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #photography #fotografie #portrait #porträt #mikroplastik #microplastics #lanzarote #canaryislands #kanarischeinseln #atlantik #atlantic #marinedebris #plasticpollution #plastikkrise #henriettepogoda #oceannow #inyourface #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel #silviakurr #iop #womenartists #womensart #nasenbluten
Anja Reul 📯