Dark Ocean Exhibition

Dark Ocean, a solo exhibition by Natasha van Netten at Xchanges Gallery, September 9 – September 25, 2016. Please scroll down for more images and to read a summery of this exhibition.

Dark Ocean poster

Pod, 3,500 folded paper triangles, fishing line and hooks, 2016,

Pod, detail

Pod

Dark Ocean exhibition

Cetacean Identification Guide

, ink and sea water on paper

Balaena Mysticetus (Bowhead Whale), 15″ x 15″, ink and sea water on paper, 2016 (sold)

Cetacean Identification Guide, Detail

Pod, installation view

That in Her Retracing Search for Her Missing Children Only Found Another Orphan, oil on panel

-61.339, 15.447 (Dominica), 22″ x 28″, India ink on embossed paper

Whaling, glass bottles and book (Moby Dick by H. Melville), 2016 (Sold)

Whaling, (detail) text from Moby Dick and glass bottles

Whaling, book (Moby Dick by H. Melville

Anatomy of Water No. 9, 8″x8″, oil on panel, 2015 (sold)

He Is Only Found, I Think, In The Pacific, 32″ x 47.5″, oil on panel

Humpback Whale: 104,000 (IWC), ink on paper, 2016 (sold)

The Dark Ocean exhibition revolves around whales from a scientific perspective. The show is divided into two kinds of work representing two separate stages of scientific research: 1) Fieldwork, represented as a collection of paintings of whales at sea reflecting a poetic and emotional connection to the whale, and 2) Labwork, described through drawings, paper embossings and installation works which represent the data collected on the field being processed, examined and analyzed in a lab.