Embassy of the Baltic Sea presents the exhibition Showing up as the Baltic Sea: Speak for the Sea. Seven artists have created masks embodying the beings of the Baltic Sea.

Sweden's second marine national park and the first in the Baltic Sea will be inaugurated in september: Nämdö Archipelago! The new national park is located straight east of Stockholm (map below). The Embassy of the Baltic Sea will contribute with an exhibition about representation of more-than-human beings. We are calling on artists to contribute with a mask that represents a being in the Baltic Sea - or maybe a river, or the whole sea? Humanity has an amazing ability to empathise with the way other beings perceive the world. Throughout history, shape-shifting with the help of masks has been a common way to shift perspective and thereby achieve wisdom. The concept of ‘person’ has interesting affinities with representation through masking: c. 1200, persoun, "an individual, a human being," from Old French persone "human being, anyone, person" (12c., Modern French personne) and directly from Latin persona "human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character," originally "