This undated photo, provided by the Polish artist Agata Oleksiak, shows her installation over an underwater sculpture at the Cancun Underwater Museum near Cancun, Mexico.
Polish artist Agata Oleksiak works on her installation over an underwater sculpture at the Cancun Underwater Museum near Cancun, Mexico, in this undated photo provided by the artist.MEXICO CITY – A Polish artist famed for slipping crocheted covers around unlikely objects has gotten into hot water in Mexico for slipping her brightly colored work around underwater sculptures near Cancun.
Agata Oleksiak, who uses the name Olek, said she intervened at the Cancun Underwater Museum this month to call attention to the dangers facing species such as the whale shark.
But museum director Jaime Gonzalez said she did so without permission, and may herself have damaged marine life growing on the sculptures in an environmentally protected area.
“Believe it or not, there is a lot of marine life growing, incrusted in the sculpture, and we gather that this has killed it,” he said.
Gonzalez said prosecutors are preparing to lodge charges against her.