• John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound. 48 minutes 30 seconds. © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery.

    John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound. 48 minutes 30 seconds. © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery.

Exhibition

John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea

18 May 2021 – 26 Sep 2021

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Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00
Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
10:00 – 17:00
Sunday
10:00 – 17:00

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Towner Eastbourne

Eastbourne
England, United Kingdom

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  • The 3 (local service) and 12A (from Brighton) stop near the Winter Gardens on Carlisle Rd.
  • Eastbourne Train Station
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First shown at the Venice Biennale in 2015, this three-channel film installation is the first in a trilogy including Purple (2017) and Four Nocturnes (2019) that explore the complex, intertwined relationship between humanity’s destruction of the natural world and destruction of itself.

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A sensual, poetic and cohesive meditation on man’s relationship with the sea and exploration of its role in the history of slavery, migration, and conflict, Vertigo Sea comes to Towner with the context of the gallery’s location on the southern coastline of England, and the constantly changing boundary between land and sea.⁠ Acquired with support from Art Fund, the Derek Williams Trust, The Search Foundation through the Contemporary Art Society, and Towner Collection Development Fund.⁠

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John Akomfrah

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