Visual artist and researcher Georgia Kotretsos (b.1978) criticizes viewing conventions and encourages the institutional critique in the field of art and knowledge with her work. The site-specific installation “4 Cents: On Show For 500 Years” (2018) deals with environmental pollution issues and in particular the encumbrance of the marine environment by plastic waste. The four cents of the title of the piece refer to the so-called environmental charge imposed on each plastic bag, while the 500 years refer to the time it takes for plastic to dissolve in the water. Therefore, the work asks the viewer to consider what personal memory and legacy for the future means, in the context of a social treaty that glorifies the trivial, the impersonal and the ephemeral. Kotretsos through this piece explores the relationship between man and material culture in general and the space of sculpture today.