A Walk Through the Open Call 2023 Group Exhibition | THE SHED

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the amounts of petroleum products, virgin wood, and cobalt stolen from the Congo makes one have to wonder about the mixed message that is given. granted most people who go will not be giving a second thought to any of these truths and will think somehow the arts community's continuing use of petroleum and electronics to create events that are suppose to "enlighten". it would be comical if it weren't having real world impacts. art can be created without using equipment made with heavy metals and mined by slaves, without petroluem products, without virgin wood. its like the related fashion industry that floods the world with fast fashions made from petroluem, as are the bulk of cosmetics that get washed off and down the drain into the ocean.