Art against climate change
Live MintDanish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, a Goodwill ambassador with UNDP Climate Action, is famous for his many installations that revolve around climate change. Naziha Mestaoui, a Belgo-Tunisian artist who died earlier this year, created an art installation called One Beat, One Tree which she presented at the 21st UN climate conference in Paris in December 2015. According to an obituary of the artist published on France-based Green Cross France et Territoires’s website, “the trees chosen and paid for by participants led to the planting of 100,000 trees in sites ranging from Brazil and Peru to Kenya and India that have not only helped fight climate change but improve the lives of local people”. Singapore-based Chinese artist Tan Zi Xi, whose installation Plastic Ocean was part of the St+art India’s Sassoon Dock Art Project organised in Mumbai in 2017, worked with over 400kg of plastic to raise awareness about plastic waste polluting Mumbai’s coasts.
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