About this Event
As part of this year’s Glasgow International Open Programme, Invisible Dust presents The Ocean’s Edge; a free screening of works by Letícia Ramos (São Paulo, BR), Licida Vidal (São Paulo, BR) and Alberta Whittle (Glasgow, UK) and an in-conversation with the artists and Alice Sharp.
“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two successive days is the shoreline precisely the same”. – Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea, 1955.
Does the sea surround the land, or the land the sea? The ocean has two edges: the edge from which you step out of the world you know; and the sea of possibilities, a threshold of imagination. Inspired by the pioneering environmentalist and writer Rachel Carson, Glasgow-based, Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle, who represented Scotland at the 2022 Venice Biennale, joins Brazilian artists Letícia Ramos and Licida Vidal to screen their works and chat with Invisible Dust’s Artistic Director Alice Sharp. Uncovering the Atlantic Ocean from Scotland to Brazil weaving together poetry, decolonial ancestral knowledge, climate change and marine science. Currently Letícia Ramos is showing in For All At Last Return at the Baltic Gateshead till June and this event will build momentum to new works and exhibitions by the artists' continuing collaborations ‘to step from the Ocean’s Edge’.
Atlantic Ocean species including a black seadevil fish from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, a flower coral from Barbados and leatherback turtle hatchlings from Trinidad will be displayed as part of the event, selected by Mike G. Rutherford, Curator of Zoology & Anatomy, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, to showcase the range of the museum’s collections. In October, the artists saw live adult leatherback turtles, the largest of all living turtles, in a sanctuary in Ubatuba, Brazil and this forms part of the art and science interdisciplinary collaboration of 'The Ocean's Edge' programme.
This event is part of the British Council and Instituto Guimarães Rosa UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025–26 with the Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh.
Partners include Cove Park, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Embassy of Brazil in London, Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh (UK), Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo, Bienal das Amazônias, and Universidade Federal do Pará (Brazil).
Image: Alberta Whittle, Where the tide greets memory, 2023, Digital collage on brushed aluminium, 80 x 120 cm, 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. Photo: National Galleries of Scotland
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kelvin Hall Cinema, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
