**Disko Bay Greenland, July 2018 by Kadir van Lohuizen**

**Kangerlussuaqu, Greenland, July 2018 by Kadir van Lohuizen**

This special exhibition presented at my favorite Saatchi Gallery in London is an ultimate response for terrifying climate change and wake up call for us people to look outside of our cages and finally do something impactful for our common home - Earth.

As a person born in 88’ I feel ashamed by what’s going on in the world lately. Especially with our environment and nature. There’s no time to stay on the side and look passively. We all have to do something to create safe space and home for our future generations. Even the smallest steps like banning plastic bags or using recycling and organic materials in the fashion industry (which as you know is especially close to my stylist’s heart) are a mile steps if it comes to life of our planet.

Luckily, there are a real heroes in this fight. More and more worldwide activists are trying to stop global warming and climate change in the bravest possibly way.

Going back to my prime topic Jean-François Boclé's metaphorical installations propose a wasteland in which the ruins of civilisation are shored against its discontents. This Paris based artist showed his unique vision about a sea of 97,000 blue polyethynele plastic bags, forming an abyss and a quasi-memorial to lives lost at sea during the transatlantic slave trade. The omnipresent plastic bags, now synonymous with current aims to ban single-use plastics, are air inflated to symbolise the priceless commodity that is life itself.

As you see the site-specific installation is flanked either side by amazing photograph - Kadir van Lohuizen, creating the perfect illusion of being in a sea of plastic. The photographs are an alarming testimony to the speed of transformation in the Arctic region and the challenges that we’re facing on a terrifying global scale from an environmental and humanitarian point of view.