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For the The Sea Around Us, an ambitious, large-scale group exhibition that explores our complex relationship with the ocean through installation, film, participation and sound I was commissioned to write an essay to introduce the exhibition. The exhibition brought together John Akomfrah’s epic 2015 film Vertigo Sea and two video-investigations by Forensic Oceanography and Forensic Architecture bookend a conversation on humankind’s interactions with the sea; while Susanne M. Winterling’s planetary opera in three acts, divided by the currents (2018) and planetary loop of gravitation (2018) create a sensual, immersive and intimate moment to explore the relationship between marine ecology, climate change, and the Capitolocene through an ecological worldview.

 View the Catalogue and Essay here: https://www.themodel.ie/?exhibition=the-sea-around-us