Artist : Mat Chivers
Title : (It’s Not) Black & White (Brazil)
Medium : recycled & cast sea salt
Dimensions : 110 x 150 cm


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Drawing from environmental data that maps the moment of climate crisis that we are now in, yearly graphs of ocean wave heights from three randomly selected locations have been robotically milled into slabs of cast sea-salt recycled by desalination plants. Each horizontal line depicts one year: January at left to December at right. The first year of data at the top of the panel marks the moment when accurate measurements began to be transmitted back to earth from scanning orbital satellites. This specific work presents data from Itamambuca, Brazil. Wave generating swells are driven by atmospheric storm cells which are themselves a result of thermal flux in ocean currents. Wave height data is a key marker for understanding how climate change may be affecting extreme weather events around the planet.

The work of British artist Mat Chivers looks at some of the fundamental phenomena that drive our thoughts and actions.He explores ideas relating to perception, evolutionary process, ecology and ethics by bringing traditional analogue approaches to making into counterpoint with state of the art digital technologies. Chivers has works in numerous private and public collections including Oxford University Mathematical Institute, UK and Fondazione Henraux, Italy. Solo exhibitions include ‘Migrations’ at Arsenal Art Contemporain Montréal, Canada and Musée d’art de Joliette, Canada; ‘Harmonic Distortion’ at PM/AM, London, UK, ‘Altered State’s at Hallmark House, Johannesburg, South Africa and ‘Syzygy’ at Anima Mundi. Group exhibitions include The New States of Being at Centre d’Exposition de l’Université de Montréal, Canada; A Place In Time at Nirox, Johannesburg, South Africa; Glasstress: White Light/White Heat at Pallazzo Cavalli Franchetti for the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy and The Knowledge at The Gervasuti Foundation for the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy.



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