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◑ 133° 79.515 N 012° 90.797 E pt. I, 2021, installation view
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part of the body of work -321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri (2020-)
Mar 2021
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microcrystalline wax, glass wax, dyed dark coloured seawater, crystal glass beaded chains, steel chains, recycled polypropylene nestable pallets (used in transporting the IBC water container filled with seawater in other part of the installation '-321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri')
In ‘◑ 133° 79.515 N 012° 90.797 E’, part of the body of work and research project ‘-321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri’, white translucent wax pieces composed of the crystallised remains of ceromancy, a form of divination. The process of ceromancy in this piece echoes the motion in which bodies fall into water. The process was conducted in seawater (previously transported from 133° 79.515 N 012° 90.797 E, an undisclosed location at sea) poured within the sarcophagus. The pieces are chained onto polypropylene nestable pallets (used in transporting the IBC water container filled with seawater) and illuminated by LED and torchlights, alluding to the aftermaths of search parties and carcasses found in and brought out of water.
Exploring the sacrality of the liminal space between life, death and beyond, biotechnological processes, necropolitics, abjection, otherness, and collective diasporic experiences linked with my own peripatetic family history, the work reflects on the trajectories and struggle of bodies victimised by ideologies, in transgression, across systems of governance and bodies of water; aided, prostheticised, sabotaged, and/or eternalised by technologies and the technoscientific imaginary. It is dedicated to all the bodies that have been found and lost in the sea and beyond, the diasporic, and ‘us’.
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133° 79.515 N
012° 90.797 E
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© Vyvyan y. L. | 2022