HDV Stills , Rebecca Agnew, Fathom, 2024, Pigment Ink on Illford Baryta paper, 66 x 100cm, Ltd Editions 7 + AP

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Hand selected photographic image from the stop motion animation titled ‘Fathom’.

These deepsea ambitions host a dinner party that begins with elegant cuisine, and delineates into icky, slimy, and foreboding. Fed by a flurry of marine snow, mermaid tears, and fish fingers. 

Many hands dance from above, thrust on a family of rough skates (rays) stationed as chairs who gaily embrace the clammy, leafy, humanoid ‘monsters’. 

The mermaid of many hands is a guardian/oracle symbol, a live action performance of three dancers. The costume and dance was created and choreographed at a residency in Ubud, Indonesia, on a fellowship residency supported by a DESA X Gertrude Contemporary Partnership.

To fathom, to wonder where life began. We're inextricably linked to the chain reactions of biodiversity housed underwater.