Narratives of Soil Episode 6 - Erez Nevi Pana [Israel] (English)

A vegan and passionate animal rights activist, Erez Nevi Pana’s practice is based on investigating natural phenomena and environmental processes through material exploration.Nevi Pana’s investigations of salt has developed into a long-term research project; he has been working with salt in the Dead Sea for the past eight years—investigating the devastating imbalance of an over-abundance of salt caused by the industrialization and mineral extraction of the region. The culmination of this research is a body of work entitled Bleached (2018), where Pana submerges wooden structures encased in loofah into the Dead Sea to absorb the wasted salt, which then crystallize like coral formations over time. This podcast is brought to you by Wendy Teo and Eliza Collin. The research project 'Narratives of Soil' is supported by the British Council 'Connections through culture' programme.