Watch the shifting landscape
This immersive exhibition will surround you with the music of birdsong, the migration of microbes, the sounds of silence, and the breath of a rainforest.
Shifting Landscapes will feature works by nine international artists, open until December 10, at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank.
The multi-story, industrial exhibition space will be filled with works bringing viewers an experience of the changing Arctic, poisoned rivers, a threatened rainforest in the Amazon, a lost world built on dredged sand and the shifting sounds of the Earth.
Artists include Gheorghe Popa, a photographer from Transylvania, Romania, whose work has won several international awards, including the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year and the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Alongside Mr Popa, the exhibition will host works of Katie Holten. Based between New York City and Ardee, Ireland, in 2003 she represented Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale.
As you walk further into the exhibition you will see works by Tunisian documentary photographer and photojournalist Zied Ben Romdhane as well as Cambodian-born film-maker Kalyanee Mam who won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
The exhibition will be highly interactive, containing sensory installations, soundscapes, large- scale photographic works, and film.
The experiential art collective, Marshmallow Laser Feast, will also premiere their large-scale video and audio installation, Breathing with the Forest.
The installation invites visitors to take part in a breath-based meditation that connects viewers to the relationships that exist with the forest ecosystem. While images of trees and their shifting landscapes surround the room.
Photography will examine the destruction of mangrove forests in Koh Sralau, Cambodia, and the impact this has had on the lives of Cambodian families, the changing landscape of the Arctic in the wake of climate change, the impact of a Romanian copper mine on the region’s ecosystem and the impact of rising temperatures in Tunisia.
After showings at the New York Film Festival, Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee’s virtual reality experience Sanctuaries of Silence transports you deep into the Hoh Rain Forest – one of the quietest places in North America, to experience the impact of human-generated sound on the living world.
Looking even deeper, there is a ‘living installation’ where plants grow in fabric-skinned forms, creating a textural landscape of ‘living seats’ and delicate images of microscopic cell migration.
Picture: Lost World, Picture: Mona Simon