Rothschild

Miguel Rothschild brings a dramatic new seascape installation to Hastings Contemporary, exploring what lies beneath the ocean's surface.

The duality and elemental power of the sea have inspired Miguel Rothschild’s work for more than two decades, creating work which conjures the luminous, ever moving and changing surface of the sea, as well as its silent, introspective depths.

A celebrated figure internationally, this will be Rothschild’s first solo show in a major UK gallery and will include a dramatic new, site-specific seascape installation in the galleries, shown alongside recent photographic work.

Rothschild’s work spans film, expanded photography, drawing and large-scale installations, to create impossible dioramas that beguile and transfix the viewer.  His work seeks to encourage dialogue around the need to care for and understand our oceans, and how sustainability requires us to acknowledge what remains hidden beneath the waves.

Rothschild’s work has been awarded multiple prizes and has shown widely internationally, with works held by major public collections including the State Museums of Berlin; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires and the Hermes Art Collection.