October 29, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This event has been postponed. A new date will be communicated soon.
Sea of Mercury is a photographic exhibition that explores notions of migration, nature and the relationship between the man-made and natural world within the Svalbard archipelago. Having joined several expeditions to Svalbard over the past decade, the artists have curated their work to pose discussions on human and animal migration to and from this part of the world.
The title ‘Sea of Mercury’ has been borrowed from the poem, The Farwell Glacier, written by Nick Drake during his creative expedition from Svalbard to Cape Farewell in September 2010. Drake eloquently describes this remote part of the world in the intro to his poem as:
What had been maps and dreams became a deeply beautiful place that still felt like a dream world. It exists at both the scale of the enormous and ancient (glaciers, fjords, mountains) and the tiny and transient (the glorious miniature wonderland of the summer tundra). Time happens differently there […] Light flies constantly into the eye from every direction, reflected and amplified and refracted by ice and water and sky. Silence rules.
There will be a talk about the exhibition on Sat 29th October from 14:00-15:00. The format of this talk will be a panel discuss with all three photographers, Sisse Brimberg, Saskia Coulson and Colin Tennant.
Location: The Press, 117 High Street, Dumfries
Event Type: Indoor
Event: £ Free
No Age Restriction
No Booking Necessary