“Submerged is a continuation of my earlier work, a series of moving image installations from 2020-22 dealing with human beings’ intimate and profound relationship with nature. The new body of work, intents to look at the world from other-than-human perspective, by focusing on natural substances, e.g. stone, and it’s different cycles in different time scales. The works stem from the idea, how everything in here, including human being, has been born from the same materials (magma, i.e. rock).

Submerged contemplates the boundaries between species and between the animate and inanimate nature. Where does the plant world end and the animal world begin? Is an inanimate rock actually inanimate after all? If you observe the world, it’s different substances and their cycles in another time scale, in Deep time, nothing is so clear anymore. In fact rock is in constant transformation and appears very vital. 

I’m interested in Deep time, the geological time of the Earth, a whole other concept of understanding time and change. In relation to humanity and it’s short existence on this planet, such immensity of time, seems even difficult to comprehend. Submerged is an exploration on the these layers and layers of time, not only in relation to the past, but also to what might be coming.