Allan Sekula: OKEANOS

“The sea is history,” wrote Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, referring to the site of so many lost souls in existential terms as a “grey vault.” Conversely, photographer, filmmaker and theorist Allan Sekula wrote in 1995 that, in fact, “the sea is money,” describing both the real and imagined geographies of maritime spaces under late capitalism in his seminal work . The Sekula quote appears in , a new publication produced on the occasion of a 2017 Sekula exhibition of the editors Daniela Zyman and Cory Scozzari each contribute texts to the volume: Zyman in an essay on that doubles as an introduction to the book and the exhibition, and Scozzari in a transcribed conversation with curator Filipa Ramos about , a film and video series that ran adjacent to the exhibition and profiles contemporary artists whose work carries on Sekula’s project in various ways.