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https://macm.org/app/uploads/2020/08/AKOM150001_still_A-Red-Jacket.jpeg26001463John Akomfrah’s three-channel video installation Vertigo Sea (2015) is at once devastatingly beautiful, heart-wrenching and incredibly timely. Composed of excerpts from films and television programs drawn primarily from the archives of the BBC natural history unit, along with staged footage shot by Akomfrah, it weaves together multiple narratives that portray the ocean as a site of terror and of beauty.