A Zoo will usually try to re create an animals natural habitat. However, Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna allowed artists to make a set of insulations, which present the effect of pollution on the habitats of wildlife. There are oil pumps, trash, barrels of chemicals etc.
The Artists website has some more pictures: http://www.steinbrener-dempf.com/
"According to the artists, these scenes of ecological nightmares are “experimental set-up[s]” in which “the viewer is forced to reconsider traditional modes of animal presentation and simultaneously to question the authenticity of concepts which are restaging 'natural' environments while they are increasingly endangered.”"-Pruned site
The Artists website has some more pictures: http://www.steinbrener-dempf.com/
"According to the artists, these scenes of ecological nightmares are “experimental set-up[s]” in which “the viewer is forced to reconsider traditional modes of animal presentation and simultaneously to question the authenticity of concepts which are restaging 'natural' environments while they are increasingly endangered.”"-Pruned site
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