In the wake of waiting, the sea remembers
Site-specific installation | 2025-
In the wake of waiting, the sea remembers is a site-specific multimedia installation centered on a speculative soundwork that transforms each exhibition space into a submerged, subaquatic environment. Its spatial form shifts in response to the site, variously incorporating black shimmering carpet, molded and draped tarpaulins, and other sculptural interventions that evoke the materiality of the deep sea. The soundwork unfolds as a requiem voiced by Drexciyans, drawing on the Drexciya myth of a subaqueous world inhabited by descendants of pregnant enslaved women who were cast overboard or leapt from slave ships during the Middle Passage. Together, these elements create a space where time, myth, and matter converge, entangling histories of racial violence with speculative futures, with the sea as an archive of memory and Black world-making.
Credit:
Sound composition: André Taylor
Technician: Jesper Veileby
Installation support (Astrid Noacks Atelier): Nina Cramer
Exhibition Guides(Krognoshuset & Astrid Noacks Atelier): Julia Andersson & Barly Tshibanda
Curators (Astrid Noacks Atelier): Katarina Stenbeck & Carla Zaccagini as part of the curatorial project roda- soft water on hard stone.