Ocean is a desert
Satellite art show and multimedia presentation - by artist Santiago Espeche (Download CV in PDF format 83KB)
Based on satellite images provided by the Argentine Satellite Earth observation SAC-C CONAE (National Commission on Space Activities of Argentina), Santiago Espeche explores the conjunction between science and art and invites us through the neo-figuration to plunge into a visual comparison between the oceans and deserts seen from the sky.
You can not bathe twice in the same river ... the waters have gone, others are in the first place and even we ourselves are others." Heraclitus of Ephesus
At fifteen walking through the Sahara desert, the guide Mohammed said: "tu sais Santiago, tout ca, c'etait l'avant ocean" (“You know, this was all ocean before"). A few days later I found near an ancient cemetery the fossil of a marine alga.
Desert Ocean is simply a reflection of that moment in which a touareg gave me a life lesson: "We are continuously becoming." Heraclitus of Ephesus argues that this constant flux is just a tension between opposites, which makes the current movement. "Neither human being nor divine being has made this world, but it always was and is and will be forever live fire that lights up as far and as far as it goes it will extinguish." so that is how I intervened satellite images of the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula and Argentina. Like the desert we were part of the ocean and are part of the future Atlantis.
Formats:
The exhibition consists of 11 productions of 80 cm x 1 m
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