Installation view Galerie Klubovna, Brno, Czech Republic
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With the project “Paint Job” artists look into the aquaculture industry that operates as an alternative ecosystem, stretching from GMO salmon to seasonal work. “Paint Job” is salmon-like aluminium sculptures that address the artificial colouring in aquaculture. Farmed salmons are given pigments to imitate the red hue, which is normally provided by habitat.

Wild salmon get their ruddy shade by eating krill and shrimp, whereas farm-raised salmon, whose meat is naturally white, is carefully “coloured” with pigment Astaxanthin added to food. It is necessary for salmon to have a red colour that fits the consumer's image of salmon flesh. In “Paint Job” sculpture production artists appropriate the shapes and high-energy colours that have been manipulated by contemporary consumer culture to facilitate faster customer turnover and product desirability.