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Your oil-spill garden, 2023 - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Ali Faisal Al Anssari, Qatar Museums
Your oil-spill garden, 2023
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Ali Faisal Al Anssari, Qatar Museums
Your oil-spill garden, 2023 (Detail) - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your oil-spill garden, 2023 (Detail)
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view, the curious desert - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view, the curious desert
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view: The curious desert (4) - near the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view: The curious desert (4)
near the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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As in Your glacial-dust garden and Your obsidian garden, this work features a material taken from one context and transported to the current location: tar residue that lay on a beach in Qatar as a result of oil spills, both naturally occurring and human-caused. The tar was brought here and arranged in a circle, similarly to the installations in Your glacial-dust garden and Your obsidian garden. These three pavilions can be understood in relation to one another thematically. Each reflects one of the massive forces shaping our planet: volcanism, the retreat of the glaciers, and finally the petroleum pollution resulting from human extraction of carbon fuels.

Artwork details

Title

Your oil-spill garden

Year

2023

Materials

Galvanized steel, textile (white, anthracite), solar lamp, oil spills, tar