This whimsical artwork consists of plastic-laminated and reconstituted organic and synthetic bodies installed on a light-box. Inviting viewers to reflect on the implications of climate change, the bodies include roses, precious stones, soil, perished crabs, insects and coffee.

“My use of plastic is not unconsidered as I reflect on a landscape without us, I think about the immortality of plastic and how this material might (probably in a climate-fiction scenario) memorialise our presence in the world,” explains Munnuk. “I imagine a future landscape of mutating plastic roses and, no one person to name them.”

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Georgia Munnik is a South African visual artist based in Cape Town. She graduated in 2015 with an MFA in Fine Art from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art in Norway and has shown artworks in solo and group exhibitions and attended artist residencies in various European countries. Munnik works across a wide range of fields including the visual arts, curating, critical and creative writing, pedagogy and queer ecological and social practices. Recently, Munnik has started to work with sculpture and ecological speculation as an exercise in untranslatability. She calls herself a weird ecologist.