Performance Art – The disposable mask in the sea
I normally capture the uniqueness of a living being in my paintings. This painting is different: here I depict realistically what has now become normality.
Inga Prasse
From October to December 2021, Inga Prasse worked on-site at the beach promenade and the Baltic Sea Station as part of her project “Art Sponsors for the Baltic Sea Station Travemünde.” The result is a painting of a fire jellyfish next to a used disposable mask in the sea—an image exploring transience, environmental pollution, and the long-term consequences of marine debris. While painting, she also distributed facts about marine litter and information on the decomposition times of some everyday items.
The project was supported by the Museum of Nature and Environment in Lübeck, where the artwork was on display in the exhibition “Of Rivers and the Sea” whenever she wasn’t working on it.
41 patrons supported the painting “Jellyfish and Mask” with a total of 1,150 euros, which Inga Prasse donated in full to the Travemünde Baltic Sea Station on January 12, 2022. The funds benefited the “Plan-it Plastic” project at the Ostseegymnasium Timmendorfer Strand, in which construction fences salvaged from the Trave River were recycled and transformed into a fish sculpture.
