Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen
Until Sat 8 July
Oceans: Surface/Below presents work from the United States-based artists Pam Longobardi and Diana Heise. The exhibition will display work from both artists who use environmental mapping to display the effects of plastic contamination on industrial fishing and habitat degradation within the world’s oceans – an insightful experience that helps people understand its full effects. Both artists will focus on this serious issue as part of the Ephemeral Coast project, which looks into what it means to live and coexist with water, organic life and waste.
Pam Longobardi transforms commonplace objects into eye-catching and captivating installations. By using beach community clean-ups and international expeditions, she displays the relationship between plastic toxicity and ocean life. Diana Heise’s work uses film and photography to display the effect of human activity on coastal habitats and their impact on traditional fishing communities. She also looks to create a series of intimate lens based studies that examine the relationship between Creole fishing communities and a shoreline that is increasingly distressed by the effects of industrial fishing, pollution, coral acidification, and the disappearance of mangroves, a vital ecology for coastal life. An insightful, educational and thought-provoking exhibition that explores the sad and tragic beauty of humanity’s relationship with the ocean and environment.
Admission: free. Info: 01267 222 775 / www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk (DT)