Workshop – Exhibition: The NA Garbage Patch

Workshop associated with the Exhibition «The NA (North Atlantic) Garbage Patch» photography by Oliver Behrmann at the Sala Lola Massieu in Santa Brígida, Gran Canaria.

As part of the exhibition, the following activities will be held:

-Workshop: Thursday, March 12, at 5:00 PM. To participate in the workshop, it is necessary to register in advance by sending an email to cultura@santabrigida.es.

The multidisciplinary artist Oliver Behrmann will exhibit his project The North Atlantic Garbage Patch from March 6 in Santa Brígida, an exhibition that can be visited at the Sala Lola Massieu until March 27. The exhibition is part of the Itineraria program, promoted by the Plastic Arts Center, and has the collaboration of the Santa Brígida City Council.

The exhibition brings together a collection of works in which the creator presents a visual and critical reflection on the contemporary environmental catastrophe, focusing his gaze on the so-called North Atlantic Garbage Patch (North Atlantic Garbage Patch), a vast area of marine debris accumulation that floats in the North Atlantic gyre. This patch brushes against the Canary archipelago, whose coasts receive increasing amounts of plastic waste, many of them adrift for decades.

For this series, Behrmann photographs small fragments of plastic collected on Canary Islands beaches using macro photography with ultraviolet light. The result is surprising enlargements that reveal the hidden structures of microplastic: traces of the passage of time and its fragmentation in the ocean. Textures and shapes imperceptible to the naked eye are transformed, when magnified up to one hundred times their original size, into landscapes that evoke distant and unknown worlds.