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Four years ago Liz Bachhuber and Jill Sebastian embarked on a transatlantic, online collaboration. Having met in art school in the 1970s, they reconnected during the pandemic and realized that their artistic paths have been parallel. Working on different continents – Germany and the United States – they share a commitment to exploring cycles of regeneration and the relationship of nature and culture, material and language, environmental science and art.
Their large-scale installation Eat My Words is a metaphorical and material celebration of this renewed friendship and an investigation of the nature of collaboration. Bachhuber and Sebastian’s individual practices form the backbone of this endeavor, feeding an ongoing conversation about environmental issues. Both artists work by hand with scavenged materials but experiment to discover beauty and value in unexpected places. They pursue recycling and composting as metaphors for artmaking and as a way to live and work responsibly in two of the most powerful and environmentally ruinous consumer societies on earth.
The problem of waste is a global question. Bachhuber and Sebastian ask: How precious are our works and our words? How can we serve?
