Overview participating exhibitions
Terra Cognita
2012
Terra Cognita
Britta Isenrath
Parts Per Million
The phrase ‘parts per million’ refers to the proportion of one element to the whole of the compound of which it is part. Isenrath made the series with the same title in August, 2010, several months after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico spewed hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into the water. Because access to the heavily polluted coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida was restricted, Isenrath decided to photograph the beautiful beaches which were still accessible. The barely visible clean-up crews and their materials disrupt the idyll.
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Gulfport, Mississippi
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Orange Beach, Alabama
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Pensacola Beach, Florida
Biography
Britta Isenrath (West Germany, 1979) graduated from the University of the Arts at Bremen in 2010, with her series Super Dry as her graduation project. In 2008 she was among the organizers of Galerie Flut in Bremen. A year later she was a co-founder of the art collective Kill Your Darlings.
