The world’s largest lake faces irreversible scars in its body every day. Extreme flows of city residuum along with agricultural toxicants in waters, has changed and darkened the face of the glorious Caspian Sea. Oil exploitation contaminants added to the misery of the sea, and increasing daily global warmth the stink of garbage’s which have piled up into landfills in place of the seashore smell.
Moreover what made this situation worse are construction projects along the seacoast, overfishing and leaving behind fish nets in to the sea. Because of all these reasons the Caspian Sea is no longer a safe place for its offspring’s.
The body and soul of the Caspian’s only mammal suffer severely these days. Inadequate food resources, lack of appropriate resting locations along with infected wounds and becoming entangled in the abandoned fish nets and legal hunting in some countries around the Caspian, are some of the reasons which have caused this 90% depopulation in the last half century.
The Caspian seal, as a symbol of purity, is refraining from this region and heading towards darkness and fading into non-existence which will be an environmental tragedy of the gravest magnitude. This is an example of the catastrophic situation which is caused by our behavior towards nature.
“For the sake of the Caspian seal” is a title of an exhibition in which by using simple concepts and showing context, contents and the status of the Caspian seal, and a video which includes a traditional dance, trying to illustrate environmental threatening factors and life expectancy reduction causes of the Caspian seal.
This exhibition, is following a previous arrangement called “Cotton moan” which focused on fading identities.
