Video: Environmental installations by Anna Garfort
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The state of the environment and the ecology of large cities are problems that concern many today. British Anna Garforth - not an exception, but its advantage is that it not only tries to fight to improve the ecological situation, but also does it creatively. Installations by Anna Garfort should be found not in exhibition halls, but on the streets of the city. Usually, the author uses natural materials, say, moss or leaves, as well as recyclable materials - for example, the same waste paper. Anna is often invited to create thematic installations for various social events, seminars, campaigns.
One of the most interesting projects of Anna Garforth, carried out in collaboration with Elly Stevens, is moss graffiti. First, the artists attached letters to the walls of old buildings, and then covered them with a special compound containing spores. A little patience - and now the inscriptions turn green, covered with a layer of growing moss.
The Rethink project, commissioned by Arte TV, is another example of original "natural" graffiti. It took 4 hours to create it, a thousand thorns and hundreds of leaves, which the author attached to a metal fence.
The installation "Love Your Street" graced a boring wall, turning it into a work of art. Anna Garforth made the original heart from hundreds of sheets torn from the Yellow Pages.
Another work, co-authored with Ellie Stevens, is the installation "Trashtype", made of scraps of newspaper, brown paper and other rubbish rolled into rolls and fastened together in the form of letters.
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