Rooted in the intricate yet affective narration in Lamalera village in Indonesia, Ocean Cage encompasses the entanglement among the whale, the fisherman and the ancestor. The exhibition site consists of a series of video works and installations. In the interspecies encounter with the sperm whale, the interrelationships of a complex ecosystem and the basis of solidary economic coexistence manifest themselves as well as a spiritual source and connection with the ancestors, interwoven like the links of a chain where a beginning and an end can no longer be determined. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves into the tender, still, aflicted ideological rift, to breathe and dissolve into the porous and leaking bodies of water, mammals, fisherfolk, ballads, breezes and spirits, reconsidering the interdependent relationships across species and how we can (re)understand the more-than-human justice.
2024.06.08 - 2024.08.11
