The Sainsbury Centre’s exhibition programme for 2025 (‘Can the Seas Survive Us?’) explores the future of our oceans. I designed a book to accompany the three exhibitions which examine the choices facing our world due to climate change, emphasising the vital importance of the oceans and the life they contain to our shared future.
Director of the Sainsbury Centre, Jago Cooper, says: “The oceans cover more than 70% of the planet; it is the life source of the natural world, an eternal expanse of more than a billion cubic kilometres of marine habitat. Yet what do these seas say about the state of nature today and our relationship with it? From wind farms populating the North Sea and plastics filling the Pacific, to toxic algal blooms appearing and beautiful creatures disappearing, what really lies below the surface of these stories and ultimately: Can the Seas Survive Us?”
The final exhibition of ‘Can the Seas Survive Us?’ is called ‘Sea Inside’ and is open until October. As part of the programme Dutch collective De Onkruidenier (‘Ecosystem Futurists’) are carrying out a residency in local coastal communities.
Director of the Sainsbury Centre, Jago Cooper, says: “The oceans cover more than 70% of the planet; it is the life source of the natural world, an eternal expanse of more than a billion cubic kilometres of marine habitat. Yet what do these seas say about the state of nature today and our relationship with it? From wind farms populating the North Sea and plastics filling the Pacific, to toxic algal blooms appearing and beautiful creatures disappearing, what really lies below the surface of these stories and ultimately: Can the Seas Survive Us?”
The final exhibition of ‘Can the Seas Survive Us?’ is called ‘Sea Inside’ and is open until October. As part of the programme Dutch collective De Onkruidenier (‘Ecosystem Futurists’) are carrying out a residency in local coastal communities.
