Recycling The Looking Glass: When Garbage and Art Collide

Marcus — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

“Recycling the Looking Glass” is a traveling art exhibition that opened last month in Norway, and will be showing at various locations throughout the country through December of 2009.

The show’s concept uses trash art and found objects as its starting points, two practices in which waste and discarded objects are reused artistically as metaphor to illustrate cultural significance. “Looking Glass” takes this approach to the next level, highlighting the global issues of conservation and the importance of recycling as its primary focal points. The exhibition aims to address the social, cultural, political, environmental and economic dimensions of recycling as a worldwide dilemma, and uses its pieces to provoke thought on these critical issues.

The show opened on April 5th in Oslo to critical acclaim, much to the delight of curator Samir M’Kadmi (read his full-length Everyday Trash interview). M’Kadmi hopes the exhibition will continue to be well-received as it travels throughout Norway over the next year and a half.

“Recycling the Looking Glass” aims to be the most successful artistic exhibition to intersect the worlds of contemporary art, the environment, and global society. For more information, including the show’s touring schedule and a list of contributing artists, click here.

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Recycling The Looking Glass: When Garbage and Art Collide