Carbon 12. Art et Changement Climatique

The exhibition CARBON 12, at the Espace Foundation EDF in Paris hosted the ongoing cultural and scientific projects of Cape Farewell through the works of five artists who have taken part in Cape Farewell’s expeditions and who have closely collaborated with leading climate scientists. The resulting artworks and scientific research on exhibition encompasses biodiversity, atmospherics and oceanography — earth, wind and sea. Professor Lucy Orta took part in the 2009 Andes Expedition, Cape Farewell's first expedition outside the Arctic, an 18 day trek through shrinking glaciers, cloud forests, lower forests, areas of deforestation and the Amazon. The results of this expedition and the work she and her partner undertook with the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University were exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London in 2009. Part of this exhibition, Amazonia, has been re-configured especially for Carbon 12 and a number of new works created in the series Perpetual Amazonia – the artists ‘cultural plot’ in the Peruvian Amazon