Today we are confronted by a plastic pandemic of such magnitude that
our very survival is at stake. Our fragile relationship with nature has reached a tipping point and is raising the question of action. What are we going
to do about it? In parallel, the recent outbreak of the global epidemic caused
by Covid-19 made us even more acutely aware of our vulnerability
and interconnectedness at the same time. Is it possible to see a correlation between the plastic pandemic and Covid-19? Both are part of the same interconnected viral age, underpinned by globalization, urbanization and climate change. 

To evoke these vital concerns and the complexity of issues involved,
Beverly Barkat undertakes her own artistic journey in which she reimagines planet earth as a massive biosphere made of plastic waste, collected
from all over the world. From a distance the earth appears as a veritable reproduction of our living planet: the vast blue oceans, cultivated green lands, golden deserts, the glistening white of Arctic and Antarctic; but from up close we can see that our natural habitat has been turned into a plastic dump by our own doing.

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