27/11/2009

Jorge Otero-Pailos



Jorge Otero-Pailos is an architect / artist / conservationist mentioned in the Ugly Beauty programme on an earlier post. The above video discusses his work The Ethics of Dust: Doges Palace, Venice 2009 where he removed and therefore revealed pollution on a wall of the Doges Palace in Venice.

"Pollution is our most important product of modern civilisation...but we don't have a history of pollution." Jorge Otero-Pailos

Seeing Beauty in Venice's Pollution article