John Akomfrah about the exhibition Vertigo Sea 2015-10-25 - 2016-01-17
John Akomfrah's three-screen film installation Vertigo Sea forms a meditation on man's relationship with the sea: on the role of the sea for migration, in war and conflict, for the history of slavery and colonization. It is a narrative on man and nature, on beauty, violence and on the precariousness of life. Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick and Heathcote Williams' Whale Nation are two literary points of reference.