Conceptual artists Elise Morin and Clémence Eliard have created an artwork that will make use of thousands of discarded CDs.
As technological innovation continues to evolve at a rapid rate, we seem to be getting in the habit of designing, creating, utilising, then making obsolete.
It has been the case for the floppy disc and VHS, and as many believe, in a short amount of time it will be the once mesmerising CD format to go out of fashion.
So what to do with all these shiny discs? We cannot simply frisbee all of them off into the distance.
The Waste Landscape installation at the CENTQUATRE in Paris, France is a 600 sqm artificial landscape covered by an armour of 60,000 unsold or collected CDs, which have been sorted and hand-sewn.
Made of petroleum, this reflecting slick of CDs forms a still sea of metallic dunes: the monumental scale of the art work reveals the precious aspect of a small daily object.
The project joins a global, innovative and committed approach, from its means of production until the end of its “life”.
The exhibition will be displayed in locations coherent with the stakes of the project: the role of art in society and the sensitisation to environmental problems through culture.
To satisfy the concept of the life cycle of the format, over the course of multiple exhibitions, Waste Landscape will go through numerous transformations before being entirely recycled into polycarbonate.
All photos from www.contemporist.com
