Everything we make is a prayer. We arrived at this body of water in the desert with a simple mission: to pay attention. An act of reverence to the land.
Sinking implies submergence implies substance implies a beyond that we can access through movement. Sinking implies a substrate to move through.
Calling to the waters that connect all life, this is about hope in a ‘hopeless’ place. At the shore of a dying sea, what can be done?
Created in commune with the animacy and wild intelligence of the beyond-human realm.
A deterritorialisation of intimacy from human to non-human bodies; an unfolding over land of desire, both specific and expansive.
An immersive installation at the shore of the Salton Sea created for the Bombay Beach Biennale. Twenty-four gallons of Pacific ocean water were collected and transported to the Salton Sea in southern California.
Created for AnOther Magazine to accompany an anthology of texts compiled by Björk.
“The Icelandic artist gathers together the work of some of the most important post-feminist thinkers of the age . . . Björk has compiled an agenda for hope and reconnection."
Poetry created and installed for Parco Dei Sesi, Pantelleria.
Conversation 1: Salton Sea, California, USA X Bay of Naples, Mediterranean Sea, Italy
A journey through the liquid depths of the burning soul both expansive and intimate, embodied and anonymous. A story of water in the desert. Nominated for the Prix Pictet.
Occupying a space between worlds these objects defy categorisation - animal, vegetable, mineral - phylum, class. They are an invitation to attend to the unknown, the magical, the sensorial.
Animal, emolient, slick.
(time is deep, not long)
Solar power, mirrors, directed sunlight
They say that just before you die your life in its entirety flashes before your eyes. But what if this flashing is less of a flash and more of a vision. . .
What if I told you I can remember everything, an undoing epic and tender. . .
A quartet of films captured for luxury jewellery brand Ouroboros
A poem in 24 images, created in response to the 1966 film Maidens of Fetish Street for Nicolas Winding Refen’s Vol 4 "Smell of Female", curated by Ben Cobb.
Created for luxury bespoke jewellery brand Ouroboros, featuring four short films and a series of twenty four images.
Rambling woman, shot and created for luxury lingerie brand Coco de Mer.
Thunder from a clear sky means the gods are paying attention.
The truth is an act of love
Black oxide and Ash on paper. Created for Art on a Postcard’s International Women’s Day Auction 2022
Margo is a threshold, liminal; not quite dissolution.
The meeting of difference requires lubrication. Surely, Margo is a wet place.
Water, the unconscious — sex is where we dive in.
Here we do not become animal,
we remember that we are animal.
Created for the Sunday Times Style to mark the release of Margret Atwood's The Testaments.
The voice escapes. Things grow in quiet places, between the cracks. Power and fecundity. Desire is policed, but nature is abundant.