Saline: plexiglas containers filled with water

For inSITE94, artist Nina Karavasiles created "Saline/La salina" at the Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum, part of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The artist built a salt-filled trough that extended from the aquarium-museum courtyard down the hillside towards the water, creating a visual connection to the seaside, the Scripps Pier, and the ocean beyond. Alongside the trough were Plexiglas enclosures containing salt water. Over the course of the exhibition the water evaporated leaving behind salt crystals. --inSITE94

• 1994

• Karavasiles, Nina (American installation artist, contemporary)

• InSITE94

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 178)

Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum

Plexiglas; water; salt (inorganic material)

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region
• Pacific Ocean

• Installations (visual works)
• Public art
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Border art
• Landscapes (environments)
• Oceans
• Process art
• Views

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715459

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• inSite Archive

Garden and Landscape

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2020-10-28