Elise Morin, an artist and Clémence Eliard, an architect joined forces in 2009. A splendid and creative team who have come up with a project called 'WasteLandscape'. A concept that combines three of my favorite subjects: contemporary art, landscaping and environmental concerns.

How does it collectively combine something as vast as landscaping with art and something as serious as environmental concerns? Well, they have created an impressive installation out of 65,000 discarded CDs at the Centquatre art space in Paris. These CDs are sorted and hand-sewn together and draped over inflatable mounds. WasteLandscape is a 500 square meters artificial undulating landscape.

"It is well known that CDs are condemned to gradually disappear from our daily life, and to later participate in the construction of immense open-air, floating or buried toxic waste reception centers. Made of petroleum, this reflecting slick of CDs forms a still sea of metallic dunes: the art work's monumental scale reveals the precious aspect of a small daily object." they share.

The project joins a global, innovative and committed approach, from its means of production until the end of its “life”.“WasteLandscape” will be displayed in locations coherent with the stakes of the project: art role in society, raising consciousness to environmental problems through culture,  alternative mode of production and valuation of district associative work and professional rehabilitation. Over the course of multiple exhibitions, “WasteLandscape” will go through quite a few transformations before being entirely recycled into polycarbonate. The roaming will allow both artists to pursue new awareness-raising activities.

Waste-Landscape.com


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