Art installation in Bali near Potato Head Beach Club

With the help of art, you can raise acute problems and convey important ideas to society, showing them from a different angle. One example of such socially significant art is the new installation, opened at the entrance to the Potato Head Beach Club on the island of Bali, Indonesia.

The installation by German artist and art activist Liina Klauss is called “Five Thousand Lost Soles” and, oddly enough, consists of five thousand rubber slippers assembled on the Bali coast by a small team of volunteers for just six beach cleanups.

The installation is made in the form of a huge ocean wave, painted in the colors of the rainbow, on a frame of bamboo grown in an environmentally friendly way. As a bonding material - a plastic thread from molten caps from plastic bottles.

Its goal is to draw attention to the problem of plastic waste in the oceans. “I would like people to take a different look at what we consider garbage. Everything that we throw back to us through the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, and the soil into which we plant plants and on which we grow cattle. Beach slippers are just an example of how we spend materials irrationally and how we can use what we consider useless, ”the author says.

The installation will be available for viewing throughout the summer season of 2018 at the entrance to the Potato Head Beach Club in Bali, Indonesia.