“The exhibition makes concrete our need for purposefulness, our need to protect a delicate symbiosis with the planet.” — Patricia Emison (author & art historian)

David Cass’ Venice Biennale installation comprises a connected pair of art projects, exploring climate-change driven changes in our oceans and along our coastlines. The artworks are the result of over three years of painting, surveying, and research. While one features intimate illustrations of sea, painted upon recycled substrates, each with a horizon at a different level; the other is formed of several hundred personally addressed letters, describing localised variations in sea level. 

Presented in an engaging and accessible manner, together, the projects bring home an issue which will inevitably touch us all – in a city familiar with the mercurial motions of water.