UNITED BROTHERS, Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?, 2014 (detail). Courtesy of the artists and Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

An-My Lê, Manning the rail, the U.S.S. Tortuga, Java Sea, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York.

Ursula Biemann, film still from Subatlantic, 2015 (detail). Courtesy of the artist.

Yonatan Cohen & Rafi Segal, Territorial Map of the World (detail), 2013. Courtesy of the artists.

Maria D. Rapicavoli, slide from Load Displacement, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.

Mati Diop, film still from Atlantiques, 2009. Courtesy Le Fresnoy

Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, film still from The Forgotten Space, 2010. Courtesy of Icarus Films.

The Ocean After Nature, installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2016. Photography by Charlie Villyard.

The Ocean After Nature, Drexciya (detail), Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2017. Photography by Ros Kavanagh.