Liquid ground

Although the oceans make up more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, to date now only a very small portion of the seabed has been mapped. However, in recent years, the mapping of these spaces has accelerated due to different economic, geopolitical and scientific interests, determined to build a ‘new continent’ to be explored and exploited under the sea. Shaped by a wide variety of found material—from the illustrations of the first worldwide oceanographic expedition, to current technologies and visions related to the oceans floors—Liquid ground is an audiovisual essay that takes as its thematic axis the ocean floor and its current cartography to talk about colonialism, ecology and representation.