Janet Laurence's new evocative installation, The Burnt Sea is now on view at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung in Berlin. This site-specific work transforms Alfred Ehrhardt’s 1930s–40s coral photographs into delicate silk veils that drift like underwater relics—fragmented, translucent, and fading.
Air currents and light animate these floating fabrics, echoing the fragility of our oceans and the devastating impact of coral bleaching.
Laurence’s poetic layering of embroidery and ash-toned imagery creates a space of mourning and reflection, while a “reef hospital” of bleached coral and coloured threads offers a glimmer of hope and restoration. This exhibition is a powerful call to action in the face of ecological crisis.
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