Urban Intervention with Giant Plastic Bottles by Eduardo Srur

Sao Paulo based visual artist Eduardo Srur has created an urban intervention titled PETS featuring enormous blow-up sculptures of plastic soda bottles.

The idea of the work was to reactivate, visually, the city’s main river and to invite three thousand public school kids and teachers for a special visit. At the end of the exhibition, the plastic material of the inflatable bottles was transformed into hundreds of schoolbags designed by the artist Jum Nakae and donated to the schools that had taken part in the tour. Beyond the environmental message concerning the generation and disposal of waste, the work is also about recycling the gaze.