Air de l'océan
"Ocean Air"
1'800 discarted plastic bags
Post-Plastic-Lux, Athénée 4
Genève, 2015
Air de l'océan – does it mean the little packets of air in the plastic bags; an «Air de Paris» of the 21th century; the air of our time, which we are running out of?...
In «Air de l’océan», Ocean Air, a giant wave is deployed in space as well as in time. The project begins to take shape as the local inhabitants collect discarded plastic bags. The collected bags become the substance of the wave, like a myriad of pixels floating in the space.
As pictured here, it extends across the space of the Athénée 4 in Geneva. Each time the installation is taken down, the collection of sacks continues on its way – not to the ocean, but rather to organisations that develop arts and crafts ateliers to creatively recycle materials in the context of social projects.
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