Beatriz Chachamovits
Artistic Ocean Obsession
Everything Brazilian artist Beatriz Chachamovits makes has to do with the decline of the coral reef ecosystems. She turns coral bleaching, ocean acidification and plastic pollution into works of delicate beauty that are visceral reminders of how human behaviour harms our environment.
“Like the reef itself,” she says, “my work uses a number of underlying structures – interdependence, diversity and scale – to organise collective empathy.” One interactive installation, an unfired clay model of a bleached ocean floor, gets trampled during viewing. “My aim is that once people are back in the natural world, they’ll be more cognisant of how their behaviour might be harmful to the environment and inspire action to care for the oceans and coral reefs, and consequently, the whole planet.” Wander (and wonder) at her website.

