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The Cultural FrontlineThe Art of Inauguration SpeechesThe underwater museum 15 metres below the sea

The museum was createad by the sculpture and environmentalist Jason deCaires Taylor

  • Crossing the Rubicon represents the point of no return in climate change
  • The Raft of Lampedusa depicts the migrant crisis
  • Some of the figures were cast from actual migrants who arrived on refugee rafts.
  • The Rubicon represents people walking towards climate change, with eyes closed or on their tablets
  • Deregulated is a playground scene that on closer inspection depicts an oil pump
  • Inertia shows a sedentary figure with a TV dinner on his lap
  • The artist himself is astounded at how his figures change and evolve underwater
  • Longer established installations are transformed by brightly coloured corals.
  • A head cast is colonised by colourful sea life.
  • The ocean casts a haunting and eerily beautiful blue light on the figures
  • Installations in an underwater museum 15 metres below the sea

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