LuzInterruptus The Plastic We Live With at the Jelsa Art Biennial | Livegreenblog – Floornature

We have been living with plastic for many years, and cannot easily get by without it. We are aware of the environmental impact, from the large “garbage patch areas” in the oceans, to the bags we find on our walks in the woods. It is a practical material, but one that is harmful to the environment and to our own health. This is a theme that the LuzInterruptus art collective has been tackling for some time, and they have now presented it again this summer as part of the Jelsa Art Biennial, a festival of contemporary art on the island of Hvar in Croatia. The Plastic We Live With was created in an abandoned building that was part of the Hotel Jadran tourist resort, overlooking the marina on the shore of the Adriatic Sea. As happened in Bordeaux in 2018, the members of the collective intervened on the more than 40 windows of the structure to create the work. They explain why they have somehow recycled one of their ideas: “We thought it fit to do it again, because it represents, in a graphic understandable way, the plastic surplus infesting our environment. This theme is quite recurrent in our work.…
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