E-waste Cyborg

Pimchanok Chaiphet is a Thai-British designer, maker, artist, craftswoman and critical thinker working across sustainability, social justice and equality. E-Waste Cyborg raises the issue of the UK’s illegal export of toxic electronic waste to countries including Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Thailand and Ukraine, which affects the health of local communities – particularly children. Pimchanok says: “The mask tells a fictional story of a person who lives near the dumping ground, having to breathe intoxicated air and harmful chemicals to the point where a human being turns into a cyborg.”