Women & The Sea project

Holding image, no title.

​​Considered as a feminine body - the mother sea, La Mer, has always been a fascination and subject of stories, folklore and myth. 

For men, often a place of voyage and exploration, a thing to conquer and traverse, that you shouldn't piss off cos she will swallow you up in her luscious waves and suck you down singing her siren song... and for women, more a sign of female rebellion, liberation, release, re-birth and death - a stripping off of a corset, a white dress Ophelia-esque submission, a place of release, of suicide.

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Through this research project, we draw on imagery and depictions of women and the sea from film, TV, photography, literature, folklore and myth.  We will work to then re-enact and represent the images, reappropriating and repositioning them to create new narratives and alternative myths. ​​

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This is most likely a film and installation project - it's in early days research and development, so let's see.  

TEAM

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Concept & Research

Sarah Calver

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Reference and Inspiration images include the Ama - Japanese pearl divers, still from Portrait of a Lady on Fire, others found on Pinterest.