The Little Mermaid
Being continuously subjected to acts of defacement and damage since its unveiling more than 100 years ago, the Little Mermaid statue located in Copenhagen, Denmark has never been in a stable physical state. Aside from its essential physical and formal constituents, this artifact is also made of temporal states that represent its continuous change over time. Using images collected online that depict the statue in different states (broken, destroyed, painted over, etc.) I construct a singular state in the form of a video.
The found images slowly get overlaid, creating a singular depiction, a temporal and coherent representation. The cutout grid installation shows phantom images that are residues of this operation. In essence, the images themselves can’t accurately represent the object, only when they all come together, a more complete representation emerges.
2019
