Jean Brundrit’s exhibition Espazos Precarios: O fin do mundo (Unsettled Spaces: the end of the World) in Spain

Michaelis Associate Professor, Jean Brundrit’s solo exhibition Espazos Precarios: O fin do mundo recently opened in Palas de Rei, Galicia, north-west Spain.

In August and September 2024, Brundrit spent three weeks as the first Do Picho artist in residence. The residency, founded by Ralf Jürgens is a project which aims to support artists and human rights and environmental activists, who, through their work are making a contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights and the environment, that is often so overlooked. Do Picho aims to create a supportive, safe space and a community of artists.

During the residency Brundrit started making work in response to a marine spill of plastic pellets along the coast, photographing the Galician shoreline. Although beginning with a local event, plastic pollution is a global challenge. Brundrit connected the world’s oceans by exhibiting photographs made in three locations – the Galician coastline in the North Atlantic, Cape Town in the South Atlantic, and the Southern Ocean. Included in the exhibition are images of the Antarctic ice shelf photographed with a lens made of ice in 2019. Brundrit returned to this methodology earlier this year to photograph clouds above Cape Town, with an ice lens made from frozen Antarctic sea-ice meltwater, clouds generated in an Antarctic driven weather system. 

Conceptually, Brundrit linked these photographs to the Galician coast through photographing at Cape Finisterre, believed to be the end of the world in Roman Europe, a remote location - one of the most westerly points of the continent, literally believed to be the end of the world, at that time. 

Brundrit returned to Galicia in September to curate and set up the exhibition in at the Castelo De Pambre. The exhibition runs from 13 September to 8 November 2025. For more information on the exhibition and Do Picho’s activities see https://dopicho.com/jean-brundrit/