CLOUDS I NUAGES During a research trip to Cairo, Egypt in 2009 Lucy + Jorge Orta visited the Zabbaleen community who live on a garbage mountain of Moqattam. Round 65,000 Zabbaleen people live off this refuse sorting, sifting, classifying the city's waste: bottles, plastic jerry cans, fabric, card-board. Reflecting on the sheer volume of the debris, in particular the plastic water container, they began experimenting with assemblage using recycled bottles. The resulting Cloud sculptures are the second phase in the OrtaWater project, here we see their artistic research shift from the water distribution cycle to that of the consumer object and it's consequence on society: on the one hand a vital commodity for the recycling community and on the other a disastrous pollutant on the environment.
- ISBN10 8862082169
- ISBN13 9788862082167
- Publish Date 1 March 2012
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country IT
- Imprint Damiani
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English