Seafaring people

Venice, as a city so strongly bound to water, has a duty to support awareness on the matters of ecology and ecosystem safekeeping. One of the projects it supports is Ocean Space, an institution devoted to the oceans’ safeguarding and to the promotion of ecology via art, science, and research. Ocean Space found home at San Lorenzo Church, in Venice, in 2019. Their upcoming exhibition otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua (other mountains, dissolved under the water), part of the TBA21–Academy, is a reflection on the cultural heritage of the marrons communities in the Caribbean and a depiction of aesthetical resistance: multimedia installations and large-scale paintings and sculptures explore the ideas of migration, community, identity, and power. A six-month programme by Ocean/Uni will address poetry, ecology, philosophy, and art.

Featured image: Tessa Mars, Nadia Huggins, Yina Jiménez Suriel (Photo José Rozón)