NEW DELHI: The sewage-filled Yamuna River is an unlikely setting for a large-scale art installation.

But organisers of Project Y are hoping to attract art lovers who rarely venture onto its filthy banks. They also hope to draw attention to the chronic pollution of a river worshiped as holy by Hindus.

The public art initiative aims to raise awareness of the sad state of the Yamuna by linking it with Germany’s far cleaner Elbe, where a similar exhibition is being mounted.

Co-curator Ravi Agarwal says the organisers want people to see the river for themselves.So near a rusting bridge floats a sculpture of the female form from the waist down. Its legs act as a trap for discarded plastic bottles, striking marigold garlandsand a pig carcass.—AP