By Mallika Rao, Source: Huffington Post

Last spring, 13,000 dead pigs were discovered floating in the Huangpu River, a main water source for Shanghai residents. The artist Cai Guo-Quiang is marking that horrific moment in ecological history by sailing this vintage fishing boat down the same river:

Cai’s installation, The Ninth Wave, recreates the 1850 painting of the same name. Only instead of tiny people clinging to the ship for succor against the sea’s might, Cai has swapped in stuffed animals. There are 99 in all, made to look weather-beaten, “as though seasick from the currents of our time,” as the press literature puts it.

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