Shipwreck (2016 – 2022)

Shipwreck is a long-term project that reflects on ecological disaster, consumer culture, and the seductive aesthetics of waste. The project draws inspiration from real-life ecological incidents —such as the 1992 storm that caused a cargo ship to spill thousands of plastic toys into the Pacific Ocean, or the countless Kinder egg capsules that washed ashore on the island of Langeoog in the North Sea.

Through installations, videos, photographs, and participatory actions, Rey reimagines these incidents as contemporary fables where the natural and the artificial, the real and the fake, merge into a single landscape. Plastic ducks, pink sand, or scattered bottles appear as poetic fragments of a world adrift —beautiful, absurd, and tragic at once.

Shipwreck blurs the boundary between art, activism, and ritual. It stages a tension between creation and pollution, between the desire to play and the responsibility to care..