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Sjoerd van LeeuwenHarald den Breejen

Waving the Future

recycled PET-bottles, various sizes

Initially, water was a poetic element in Nuyten’s work – the sea and the waves are recurrent motifs. But it has lost its innocence as a symbol. Increasingly, climate change is no longer an abstract threat but a concrete danger, in the form of extreme drought, forest fires, failed harvests, and floods. The latter form an especially realistic disaster for the Netherlands. In a simple but extremely apt image, Waving the Future warns for what will happen when we do not intervene. The artist regularly carries this flag during climate protests, and several activists have spontaneously created their own creative versions of it.

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