Artists Precious Okoyomon and Dozie Kanu have installed 600 gold bells at Grótta Lighthouse in Iceland as part of the 'Can't See' Sequence's 11th edition. The installation aims to highlight the importance of being humbled by nature and the existential threat that our failure to see poses.
Left, Precious Okoyomon and Dozi Khanu's bells installation at Grótta Lighthouse_Can't See Sequences XI_photo by Vikram Pradhan 37 and right, Sirenomelia by Emilija Škarnulytė at Nordic House_photo by Olof Helgadottir 2At low tide, a narrow isthmus stretches from Seltjarnarnes’ coastal road towards the Grótta lighthouse. Glossy belts of seaweed are marooned amongst shell fragments, vivid lilac against black sand.
“If you can’t see, you start to damage what’s around you,” says Arusoo. Arriving at the exterior of Marshall House, the ‘Sub-Terrain’ and ‘Soil’ chapters are outlined as geological strata on from the building’s exterior, via Monika Czyzyk’s mythical window paintings – pigmented with Icelandic clay and ash – and Bjarki Bragason’s floor-to-ceiling photographic print of a doomed Sorbus tree, planted during his childhood.
There is particular value in re-visiting the past when it resonates with the present.
Comprising a manufacturing base and R&D Centre, the Nice headquarters in Brazil by Mario Cucinella Architects hail a new era for the company‘Shoemaker to the stars’ Salvatore Ferragamo’s colourful life and work celebrated in new exhibition ‘Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960’ at the house’s Florence museum explores the Italian shoe designer’s wide-ranging career, which began in the golden age of Hollywood© Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA. All rights reserved. England and Wales company registration number 2008885.
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