Fifty-One Trillion Bits

Taking its title from the number of plastic pieces floating in the Earth’s oceans, Katy Wimhurst’s Fifty-One Trillion Bits is an ecological swan song, a fragmentary visual-narrative sequence populated by ghostly silhouettes, mythical figures, oil spills, seashores and seahorses, digital detritus and mass-produced text. A timely and urgent work of apocalyptic revelation.