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In 2016, an obituary for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef published in Outside Magazine declared the world’s largest living structure dead—battered by climate change’s whirling effects and beaten by El Niño. At its unfortunate peak, 93% of the reef was experiencing coral bleaching, due to various stressors. Responding to this anthropogenic cataclysm, artists Christine and Magaret Wertheim present new hardback, Value and Transformation of Corals (Wienand Verlag), which explores these natural living sculptures via crochet. The project of the Crochet Coral Reef , which began in 2005, has exhibited at the
58th Venice Biennale, the Helsinki Biennial, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Smithsonian Institution, among many other in- ternational institutions. This collaborative project (20,000 people have collabo- rated on, and contributed to, this work across 50 cities and countries) encounters one of the grandest, and perhaps one of the most fated marvels of the earth. Christine and Maga- ret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals asks how we can allow something once seen from space to suffer beneath a storm we’ve let loose on our planet? Read an interview with Margaret Wertheim on Flaunt.com.
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