Mermaids and Mermen are iconic for their beauty and monstrous virtues. This animated digital/sculptural installation takes on a different vision of Mer-people (without focusing on binary constructs), which embodies Hogarthian beauty aesthetics and the Kristevan abject by emphasizing the human vertebrae. This serpent- like body/hybrid fuses human and animal relationships and forces notions of the bizarre, uncanny, human uniqueness, and intrigue. These merfolk personify signifiers of oppositions in a new-fangled depiction of the mythological monsters. They are monstrously beautiful. And, beautifully marvellous.
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The Marvelous Merfolk, 2021. Clay, steel wire, synthetic hair, acrylic paint, feathers. Sculptural installation with digital projection. Loop