Video-loop, digital pronts, sea salt, stencil, acrylic resin, 2022-2023


The work titled Reef is a triptych, consisting of two photographs and a video image. The scattered acrylic resin casts of human body fragments, presented in the video, build an analogy of a bleached (dead coral reef) with a dead person - devastation, decay, and ultimately death. Two photographs complementing the work are showing the effect of recording an actions on the shores of the Baltic and Atlantic, where inscriptions (referring to the fragility of existence) are made of sea salt using a stencil. At high tide, waves of sea water slowly wash away the inscriptions, taking the salt back into the water.