Our oceans are crucially vital for a healthy planet and yet so vastly damaged and savaged as we speak. This blue space also increasingly proves significant for our wellbeing—human and more-than-human. The coast, as the place where we and the sea meet, is filled with an abundance of artistic potential.

Chili Seitz has developed a line of works which engage with environmental spaces through questions of borders, occupation, and meaning of representations of those by reshaping their representations. For example, in the piece wind and weather, flags as symbols of presence, occupation, and control are re-shaped bearing photographs of clouds, hoisted on regular flag poles, thus re-instituting wind and weather as rightful dwellers of the sky.

Modelled as an ongoing investigation, Seitz explores large sized cyanotype photography to depict the movement of the waves in their inter-tidal spaces. As a scientific form of representation, she creates an artistic led immersive inquiry into the cosmos of the shared space between the tides. Intertidal ecographies. They form an archive of conceptual cartography, the nomadic and traditional geographies and identities of terrestrial flora and fauna and geophysical bodies of water.
The ongoing research project of intertidal, the interrelating ecographies was exhibited this July at two locations in Reykjavik at SÍM Gallery and at Gerdarsafn Museum.

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