Behold the Ocean

The series Behold the Ocean was made between 2020 and 2022 while Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah joined a group of Chilean climate researchers. At the so-called End of the World, along the Strait of Magellan, they examined the acidification of the oceans and the state of the marine ecosystems.

The images are highly influenced by the individual experience of the dense situation on board the ship, the rough, sub-Antarctic landscape, and its flora and fauna. Almost abstract still lifes and landscapes in unusual colours as well as blurred portraits, produced in long exposures, combine to form an extraordinary photographic excursion. In the darkroom, the artist enlarges her images by hand and thus finds experimental and unique forms of expression, which she presents with her photographic objects in the exhibition space.