About This Project

Barbara Nati

Briny chronicles

The Earth’s seas produce half of the planet’s oxygen and absorb more than a third of its carbon dioxide, as well as interacting with atmospheric currents and thus the global climate.

The increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has led to an increase of carbon dioxide in the waters of the oceans, which results in a decrease of pH and the subsequent dissolution of calcium carbonate structures such as shells and mollusks, plankton, and corals. As a result, entire coral reefs have died and others have suffered a developmental setback; the variety of shapes and colors of these natural structures has been replaced by white, translucent, ghostly outlines. The same outcome seems to have occurred to human structures in Barbara Nati’s digital elaborations: buildings transmuted into evanescent constructions. Concrete, bricks, steel, everything is corroded and dematerialized, and all that remains of human engineering works are transparent facades.

Observing Barbara Nati’s Briny Chronicles, one is rather struck by deep melancholy and nostalgia as if one were standing in front of the ruins of a civilization of the past, ruins that nature is slowly integrating and causing to disappear.

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