April 12 - July 6, 2025
From the Galveston Arts Center:
“Brandon Ballengée’s exhibition, The Sea of Lost Children, is presented in observation of the 15th commemoration of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. The exhibition features Ballengée’s monumental sculptural installation, Collapse, made in response to the threat and potential unraveling of the Gulf’s food chain following the DWH oil spill. The piece includes 26,162 preserved specimens arranged into a pyramid, representing 370 species of fish and other aquatic organisms collected from the Gulf Coast. Specimens are arranged according to the place they occupy in the food chain, with empty specimen jars representing species in decline or those that have already been lost to extinction. The installation also includes work from the series La Mer des Enfants Perdus (The Sea of Lost Children) composed as flags depicting X-rays of missing Gulf Species flanking the gallery in a tribute to these ghosts of the Gulf.”
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