Artur Bordalo aka Bordalo II, born in 1987, lives and works in Lisbon. While studying painting, he discovered sculpture and experimented with various techniques, eventually arriving at waste as his material. His work strongly criticizes the catastrophic production of waste, and thus the destruction of human and animal habitats. Bordalo II creates murals, sculptures, and installations from discarded objects that critique overproduction, excessive consumption, and environmental destruction. Since 2012, he has collected around 225 tons of unused material that is considered inferior. His works are spread across the globe – from Singapore to the USA, French Polynesia, and Europe.

His latest work Bottled Monkey (2024) is a part of an ongoing series Pixels, in which he organizes familiar discarded objects such as car tires and facemasks in accordance with a certain structure and using repetition. For the new work made especially for this exhibition, the artist has created a large-scale installation from discarded single-use plastic bottles and programmed LED lights. Each bottle now becomes part of a whole, like a pixel that can reproduce both an image and a movement.

On loan courtesy of the artist.