New Zealander artist George Nuku has presented his latest work as an installation that imagines the state of the world’s oceans 100 years in the future where plastics have totally changed the marine environment.Nuku’s project, dubbed Bottled Ocean 2122, is being exhibited at the Theseus Temple in Vienna’s Volksgarten in Austria. The project is running concurrently with the rest of his exhibition, Oceans. Collections. Reflections, at the Weltmuseum in Vienna until October 9.Nuku was joined by 170 volunteers to create Bottled Ocean 2122 over the last three months, envisioning it as means to raise public consciousness about the use of plastics and how they end up in the marine environment.
