WE SWIM IN ONE WATER / ACT XXII, TIDAL GATHERINGS
installation views at Kungsbacka Konsthall, 2025
Act XXII, Tidal Gatherings is a part of Anastasia Savinova’s ongoing project We Swim in One Water, that explores connectedness through water on multiple levels. The show at Kungsbacka Konstahall brings together sculptures and video works, tales of ancient ice, rivers, and other waters, running through time and space, human and more-than-human lives.
Sculptures, made from materials found in and near water, evoke images of beings that might be encountered along a shoreline walk. Shells, river grass, fish skin, ropes – weaving together natural and industrial artifacts, Savinova addresses the beauty of the world, the intimate connection between organisms, and fragility of the ecosystem. The image of moving water in form of Vesica Piscis – a shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, that carries rich symbolism in both mathematical and spiritual traditions, beacons in the end of the passage, creating a nearly ceremonial presence.
Another part of the gallery offers a meditation on a waterborne journey through time on personal and planetary levels. In the central video piece, Savinova is performing together with her mother and grandmother in the river from her childhood. Almost four billion years old water flows through our lives, connecting us with past and future. A blue mountain-glacier with eggs nesting on her body stands as a symbol of genesis and the promise of emergence – of an ancient ancestor or the newcoming creature yet imagined.
installation views at Kungsbacka Konsthall, 2025
Act XXII, Tidal Gatherings is a part of Anastasia Savinova’s ongoing project We Swim in One Water, that explores connectedness through water on multiple levels. The show at Kungsbacka Konstahall brings together sculptures and video works, tales of ancient ice, rivers, and other waters, running through time and space, human and more-than-human lives.
Sculptures, made from materials found in and near water, evoke images of beings that might be encountered along a shoreline walk. Shells, river grass, fish skin, ropes – weaving together natural and industrial artifacts, Savinova addresses the beauty of the world, the intimate connection between organisms, and fragility of the ecosystem. The image of moving water in form of Vesica Piscis – a shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, that carries rich symbolism in both mathematical and spiritual traditions, beacons in the end of the passage, creating a nearly ceremonial presence.
Another part of the gallery offers a meditation on a waterborne journey through time on personal and planetary levels. In the central video piece, Savinova is performing together with her mother and grandmother in the river from her childhood. Almost four billion years old water flows through our lives, connecting us with past and future. A blue mountain-glacier with eggs nesting on her body stands as a symbol of genesis and the promise of emergence – of an ancient ancestor or the newcoming creature yet imagined.
