OHAN BREIDING

OHAN BREIDINGSOUVENIR

March 10 - April 28, 2023
HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, BUFFALO, NY

Souvenir is a collaborative project by Ohan Breiding and Shoghig Halajian that coalesces two seemingly disparate stories together—a family member's experience of surviving a tsunami while snorkeling and the longest transoceanic journey of marine organisms. It documents plastic debris that traveled from Tōhoku, Japan across the Pacific Ocean over the span of a decade and washed ashore on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America in 2022, covered with a diverse ecosystem of marine life. Presented as a video and photographic installation, Souvenir employs various image technologies—including an underwater camera, a cell phone, a drone camera—to build a visual vocabulary that can speak to the multi-scalar impacts of personal and ecological loss, and to speculate on how marine life can shed light on new strategies of survival across species and coasts.

Press

  • Ohan Breiding
    Belly of a Glacier and Souvenir
    Ohan Breiding Interviewed by Katherine Brewer Ball
    Bomb Magazine
    April 12, 2023
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  • Ohan Breiding
    Souvenir
    Collaborative project with Shoghig Halagian
    Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
    March 10 – April 28, 2023
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