A burnished coloured object shaped like a human pelvic bone lies submerged in a glass container half full of water. The bone-shaped form - cast out of pressed banana peel paste - slowly breaks apart and dissolves, rendering the water brown.

 

Banana peel fibres are scientifically proven to absorb heavy metals (copper/lead) from any given source of water. Such is the case with industrial and agricultural toxic effluents polluting waterways around the globe and, moreover, in developing countries where access to water and water quality is usually poor, consequently harming people's health and the environment.

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The motif of the pelvic bone is set as a synecdoche and a reference to the early middle-age legend of Parsifal and the fisher king, telling the story of a king wounded in his groin, whose sterility is only equivalent to that of his land.

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The work displays one of many concrete ways that science today offers us to tackle and effectively solve one of the current global pollution problems. It also poses the question of the capability of humanity as a whole to take on the quest of a concrete planet healing in favour of new proofed methods despite most of the current long-established, mostly profit-oriented technologies.

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