08 May An “Emerging Sea” will be at the institutional headquarters of the Port Authority of Vigo as from today
Rastros del Silencio, Fauna, Home á deriva, Interior and Último resquicio are the works that make up the exhibition “Emerging Sea” that from Wednesday can be visited at the entrance of the institutional building of the Port Authority of Vigo. Promoted by the Campus del Mar, under its initiative Scientists meet Artists, the exhibition shows sculptures, the result of the joint work of five researchers of the CIM-UVigo with other recognized artists.
After its inauguration almost a year ago in the Redeiras building of the UVigo, the initiative, which had the collaboration and co-financing of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology – Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, FECYT, arrived today at the institutional building of the Port Authority, where it was inaugurated this noon by the rector of the University of Vigo, Manuel Reigosa, by the president of the Port Authority, Carlos Botana, in a ceremony that was also attended by the director of the Campus do Mar and CIM, Daniel Rey, and the artists Liliya Pobornikova and Nando Álvarez. For the rector, marine research has always been in focus and “we are one of the best universities in the world in this field and we want to continue to expand this knowledge among companies and citizens. This is an initiative that goes further and wants to bring people closer to the sea from the earliest teachings,” said Reigosa.
For his part, the director of the Port Authority highlighted the value and novelty of uniting art and science, as well as the importance of transferring scientific knowledge to children. “We have to get children to look at science, engineering and the sea as something very interesting for their career,” said Botana, for whom the sea ‘is the solution to many of the world’s problems’. Meanwhile, Daniel Rey, director of the Campus do Mar and CIM recalled that “the Scientists meet Artists project tries to get the generosity and ability of artists to transmit emotions so that we can transmit to the public issues that have to do with ocean literacy and how it influences us”. Rey thanked the collaboration of the Port Authority with the Universidade de Vigo for many years and now more reinforced, if possible, with a president that the director of the Campus do Mar recalled that he is a graduate of the academic institution of Vigo.
Science and art merged in five works
Este proxecto innovador no que investigación e creatividade van da man comezou cun encontro dos e das artistas co persoal investigador para coñecer o seu traballo, para a continuación iniciar nos seus talleres o proceso creativo, froito do que emerxeron cinco obras escultóricas que amosan a simbiose entre os mundos científico e artístico.
Interior, nacida da fascinación polas formas orgánicas e sobre como estas resoan coas emocións é unha invitación á reflexión, á busca do interior e ao contacto co natural. A colaboración entre a especialista en criobioloxía e bioloxía de equinodermos Estefanía Paredes e a escultora Lyliya Pobornikova foi a deu vida a esta obra. Do tándem entre Fran Ramil, especialista en invertebrados bentónicos mariños, e o artista Nando Álvarez xurdiu Fauna, unha escultura de mármore portugués rosa e gris inspirada na fauna submarina cun deseño fluído que evoca corais, anemones e moluscos e formas en punta e curvilíneas que reflicten a complexidade dos ecosistemas profundos. O contraste entre o mármore rosa e as vetas grises achegan dinamismo, mentres que a superficie pulida realza as texturas do mármore.
Meanwhile, Último resquicio, a series of sculptures that explores the intersection between fishing and climate change, highlighting the alarming depletion of aquatic resources emerged from the joint work of Future Oceans Lab group leader Elena Ojea and artist Itahisa Pérez. The works convey the devastating footprint of human intervention and highlight the urgency and fragility of the environmental situation, inviting us to reflect on the responsibility of human beings in the preservation of the ecosystem.
The exhibition is completed with Hombre a la deriva, a regular orthohedral structure on which a scene develops in apparent equilibrium and where some of the elements broke causing a movement in the upper part in the form of a wave on which floats a cube and a human being. The sculpture, born from the collaboration between Moncho Gesteira, professor of Applied Physics and head of the EPhysLab group, and the artist Amancio González captures the moment of that rupture prior to the collapse: the balance will soon disappear and the human being is in a state of uncertainty. Finally, from the union between the researcher Paula Diz, specialized in marine microfossils, and the sculptor Noemí Palacios emerged Rastros del Silencio, three pieces in alabaster that address the stages of deterioration of the oceans due to acidification and that act as a visual statement on the importance of preserving the marine environment.
Source: DUVI
