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“For more than two decades, Miguel Rothschild has developed artistic research around the sea, transforming photography into drawing, installation, and kinetic sculpture to evoke both the changing luminosity of the ocean’s surface and the silent density of its depths. His work proposes a reflection on our relationship with the oceans and the need for a more conscious gaze towards what remains hidden beneath the waves. Challenging conventional notions of perception and reality, Rothschild constructs images that, although they initially seem to directly describe the marine landscape, gradually reveal a more complex condition: fragmented, vulnerable, and deeply melancholic. His works invite the viewer to reconsider what they believe they see, shifting attention from appearance to the multiple layers of meaning underlying every visual experience.

In works like Ocean Crack (2026) and Sea of Absence (2017), the artist intervenes in photographs of the sea by deliberately fracturing the safety glass that covers them. The cracks, which follow the rhythm of the waves, alter the image and transform light into changing reflections and shadows, generating a visual experience that oscillates between fascination and unease.

The installation From the Depths of the Sea (2026) deepens this exploration. An expanded photographic image, printed on fabric and suspended by hundreds of fishing lines, seems to undulate with the movement of the viewer. Digitally constructed from multiple recordings of the ocean, the work rejects any singular or stable vision of the marine landscape, proposing instead a mutable experience where meanings emerge and disappear like underwater currents.

Although the surface of the installation conveys a sense of constant movement, a hidden structure of weights silently supports the whole. Rothschild defines this work as a “floating silence”: a meditation on the dualities of the sea and an invitation to look beyond the surface. In this sense, sustainability emerges not only as an ecological issue but also as an exercise in perception: the ability to recognize what remains invisible and to understand that the visible constitutes only a part of reality.”