The ReefLine commissions contemporary artists to engage in direct environmental action.
Concrete Coral by Leandro Erlich is the first installation of the ReefLine, an ambitious project by Ximena Caminos, to create a 7-mile underwater sculpture park, snorkel trail and hybrid reef, approximately 700 feet off Miami Beach’s South Beach, in order to raise environmental awareness and foster reef revitalisation through a combination of art, science and conservation.
To serve as a public art piece, create a habitat for marine life and support reef regeneration, Leandro Elrich’s monumental underwater installation Concrete Coral, is composed of 22 life-sized cars made from marine-grade concrete resting on the ocean floor. This submerged “trafic jam”, aims to from a habitat for marine life. The sculptures are equipped with Coral Loks tu anchor baby corals and support their growth.
Once symbols of motion and consumption, these cars now become vehicles for transformation, symbolically reversing their damage to serve as platforms where thousands of corals and marine life will take hold and flourish, a haunting yet hopeful metaphor for our impact on the planet.
