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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Joe Hinchliffe

Art, science and a reef made of sugar: an exploration of climate change

Artist Julia Yonetani with the work Sweet Barrier Reef at the QUT Art Museum
Australian-Japanese artist Julia Yonetani at the first major survey of her collaborative work with partner Ken showing at the QUT Art Museum. Photograph: Anthony Weate/Queensland University of Technology

Ken and Julia Yonetani’s work exposes hidden connections of capitalism and overconsumption to environmental collapse, plays with eroticism and anxiety, and references the Greek gods of love and death, Eros and Thanatos.

But their series of works, Dysbiotica, began when they spat into a vial.

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