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Greenpeace Unveils Kapoor's Climate Protest on Shell Platform

8/16/2025

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Greenpeace activists installed Anish Kapoor's artwork, ‘BUTCHERED’, on a Shell gas platform in the North Sea.
The installation featured a 12m x 8m canvas soaked with 1,000 liters of biodegradable red liquid, symbolizing fossil fuel impacts.
Kapoor called the work a tribute to activists and a response to climate destruction amid extreme weather in Europe.
Shell condemned the action as dangerous and illegal; Greenpeace defended it as a lawful protest.

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Greenpeace activists installed Anish Kapoor's artwork, ‘BUTCHERED’, on a Shell gas platform in the North Sea.
The installation featured a 12m x 8m canvas soaked with 1,000 liters of biodegradable red liquid, symbolizing fossil fuel impacts.
Kapoor called the work a tribute to activists and a response to climate destruction amid extreme weather in Europe.
Shell condemned the action as dangerous and illegal; Greenpeace defended it as a lawful protest.