A new commission by Tadashi Kawamata for MAAT’s Oval Gallery is prone to be the highlight of this season, joined by a new proposal for the Project Room by renowned Portuguese artist João Louro
Image: Over Flow by Tadashi Kawamata
In October, the Oval Gallery hosts a new project by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, an immersive installation of monumental scale that offers a visceral warning about the proliferation of plastic debris in our oceans.
Entering a dialogue with the Eco-Visionaries project, Tadashi Kawamata’s solo exhibition at MAAT’s Oval Gallery is centered around questions of global ecology. Over Flow is a truly immersive installation, inviting viewers to experience a seascape of remains which follows a fictional ecological catastrophe. With debris transported by the world’s seas engulfing the museum environment, the elements in the installation come together in a sculptural form that evokes the conglomerates of polluting elements aggregated by the perpetual movements of the ocean, as well as global tourism and its fatal consumption of natural resources.
The large-scale commission at MAAT integrates both plastic residues and abandoned boats collected on Portugal’s shores during beach cleaning campaigns by volunteer organisation Brigada do Mar. Developed along one year of research and field work in Portugal, Kawamata’s project culminated in a workshop involving the local community, with artists and architects led by architectural collective Os Espacialistas.
October 5, 2018 – April 1, 2019 | Oval Gallery [MAAT]
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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