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Rubbish art makes powerful statement on what it means to be human

The Times /  Layla Leiman |  The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway was designed as an impregnable deep freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from global disasters and ensure humanity’s food supply. Last week it flooded due to permafrost melting caused by global warming.  …

It’s an uncanny coincidence that Kai Lossgott’s solo exhibition, hunter-gatherer, on at the Absa Gallery in Joburg until June 15, responds to this event and the conditions that precipitated it.

It poses the question: what does it mean to be alive in an age in which human activity is a significant determinant of environment and climate change?

read  >> Rubbish art makes powerful statement on what it means to be human. Layla Leiman.  The Times, June 2017.  Johannesburg: Caxton Press.