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Rainbow Cave

Step into Barbara Goszczynska’s cave, where what we throw away becomes a luminous meditation on nature and waste.

Inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the story about the rainbow at the end of the Great Flood in Genesis, Rainbow Cave acknowledges humanity’s continual evolution out of ignorance and our current efforts to put an end to the flood of single-use plastics. Built from salvaged post-industrial scrap plastic bags and fishing nets, Rainbow Cave glamorizes our waste and invites us to reconsider our relationship with it by making the discarded precious.

About the artist

Barbara Goszczynska turns garbage into something you want to step inside. The Polish-born, Brooklyn-based artist works with salvaged plastic bags, fishing nets, and beach debris, the leftovers of consumer life, and builds them into glowing, cave-like exhibits.

Rainbow Cave's white walls and columns washed blue and violet, small colored lights glowing along the floor.
Guests walk through a green-lit tunnel in Rainbow Cave, its walls built from layers of white plastic.
A guest walks between the white columns of the cave, coloured lights glowing along the floor.
A Rainbow Cave passage glowing hot pink and violet, crinkled plastic walls framing a purple doorway ahead.
Two guests stand talking under a glowing arch in Rainbow Cave, their reflections on the shiny floor.
A winding tunnel of the cave lit teal, the path traced by coloured lights.
Guests sit on low ledges either side of a white column in Rainbow Cave, lit blue and pink.
Close up of the crinkled plastic of Rainbow Cave, lit lilac against a soft turquoise glow.
Close up of crinkled plastic bags in Rainbow Cave, gold against a deep blue glow.