Bodies of Water
The Growlery, San Francisco
June 15-July 7, 2019
Bodies of Water is a multimedia installation that explores the ancestral and biological heritage of water. This exhibit presents a video installation, sound collage, and a series of seawater developed cyanotype prints. Exploring water as an ancient medium of memory, the artist attempts to capture traces of the lives previously lived in and around specific bodies of water. In an effort to understand a recurring dream, she repeatedly visits shoreline sites around the Bay Area where Chinese fishermen once lived and worked asking the ocean, “What do you remember?” Bodies of Water address the sea as a maternal entity, offering the viewer passage into the aquatic unconscious, transporting us to the past, present, and unseen worlds that lie below the surface of the psyche.
