‘Sea Shadow’ explores different processes of algal material transformation, highlighting how forms of metabolic digestion extend beyond bodily boundaries in relation to feminist philosophies of science and pioneering research by Fanny Hesse and Anna Atkins.

The work features an installation composed of three main elements: a hanging sculpture, seaweed bioculture and Van Dyke seaweed prints. Each element considers different ecological processes in relation to macroalgae. The installation features a hanging sculpture of pressed macro-algae samples, alongside an agar plate with a seaweed sample and live biological cultures and a series of Van Dyke brown algae prints.

‘Sea Shadow’ was the culmination of a two-week residency at Cultivamos Culture, where notions of interspecies relationality, microbial mingling and the trans-corporeal were investigated in the lab, the kitchen, around the dinner table and the sweaty spaces between. Over the course of two weeks, my work evolved through a series of writings, artworks, cooking experiments and conversations, which considered feminist histories of algae research, multispecies entanglement and climate collapse.

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 Cultivamos Cultura Gallery, São Luís, from August 12th to September 8th 2017 Palimpsesto

 Penafiel Municipal Museum, Penafiel, from January 16th to February 9th 2020 Entre Vagos

Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa Gallery, Lisboa, from February 8th to 27th 2024