Marta de Menezes latest project, Decon , is a collaboration with Lígia Martins whose research lab and involves a series of artworks inspired by Piet Mondrian's paintings. The colors from those paintings are progressively degraded by the bacteria Pseudomonas putida MET94, a "microorganism of putrefaction." With an appetite for organic pollutants, this soil microbe has the potential to be used for bioremediation, a process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. The research lab investigates the use of inoffensive bacterias to "clean" up textiles which are coloured with nocive chemicals. Cleaning and de-toxing them means that the textiles can then be recycled.
This is reblogged from "We make Money not Art".
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