The Alienated Aquarium
2025
Under the relentless assault of industrial waste, plastic pollution and overfishing, the sea has lost its primordial natural order, reshaped into a system catering to human desires: for entertainment, consumption and sacrifice.
I am reminded of the fish tank at home: seemingly clean and beautiful, yet the fish within can only live in a confined space-an artificial, enclosed environment where life can be arbitrarily controlled or removed. I feel the ocean is becoming much the same. I constructed a fish-tank-like framework from steel pipes, symbolising humanity's control over nature; foam rubber simulates polluted, deformed coral; fishing hooks and artificial bait represent the fish caught and consumed. Surrounding it lie discarded filters and plastic coral, embodying those 'environmental devices that never truly functioned.
Within this constructed "deep-sea graveyard", what remains for us? Beyond plastic debris, is there any future?
Aluminium extrusions
Steel tubing
Aluminium wire
Foam
Adhesive
Soray oant
Tisnine line
Tishine nooks
Acrile paint
Glue