By Charlotte Van Campenhout

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -French artist James Colomina has installed a drowning life-size red figure floating facedown in an Amsterdam canal and holding a flag reading “I’m fine” to protest global climate change policy.

A second of Colomina’s typical red artworks is of a child hanging from the side of the canal and painting a waterline far above the present level.

Amsterdam lies below sea level, like about a third of the Netherlands, which is kept dry by an extensive system of dikes, canals and pumps.

“(Climate change) is an absolute emergency. Climate transcends all borders, all beliefs, all opinions,” Colomina said about the installations. “We’re no longer talking about politics, but about survival. Through my work, I try to remind people of this urgency.”

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