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The Catch by Julia Lohmann
The Catch is an installation made of empty fish boxes by designer Julia Lohmann.
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The project, a comment on over-fishing, was shown in Sapporo, Japan, last month.
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The installation was produced during Lohmann's three month residency with S-AIR at the ICC in Sapporo.
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Here's some info from Lohmann:
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The Catch confronts viewers with a vast empty ocean, depleted by over-fishing and our unthinking consumption of marine life.
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Visitors are swept up in towering waves made of used empty fish boxes taken from Sapporo’s fish market.
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Unwittingly, they find themselves drifting into its womb-like core.
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Far from comforting however, the small sanctuary at the centre of the installation is bare; its walls lined with empty roe boxes are more akin to those of a church that has been raided by iconoclasts.
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The Catch is modeled on an Almadraba, a Mediterranean tuna trap now obsolete due to lack of tuna. It is inspired by Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market.
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The installation probes our fatal beliefs in endless supplies of marine life, in inflated fishing quotas and unreliable scientific research.
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