In Deep Waters speaks to the temporal connections that water creates between land, familial histories, and the passage of time; a singular site unifying distant locales. // In Deep Waters parle des liens temporels que l’eau crée entre la terre, les histoires familiales et le passage du temps; un site particulier unifiant des lieux distants.
It takes a thousand years for a particle of water to complete a single rotation around the global current. In Deep Waters is an expanded cinema installation that transforms the space into an immersive experience. It speaks to the temporal connections that water creates between land, familial histories, and the passage of time; a singular site unifying distant locales.
In Deep Waters engages the senses to reshape a static space into a moving and changing body. The room becomes an expansive body of water; the sounds of waves crashing, fog that blurs the lines between water and sky. Viewers are invited to sit in the contemplative space, to let the fog wash over them, or to walk around the expansive cinema installation and allow their shadows to interrupt the projections - to leave their temporal traces on a moving image. By creating an immersive experience, the artist uses the ocean as subject to foster a sensorial experience of a history they cannot touch, to create a space where you can temporarily feel the histories of the artist's family’s and the ancestors whom they've never met but whose journeys shaped their experiences. The artist is the first generation of their familial linage to be born outside their ancestral homeland of the Phillippines. By creating this ephemeral experience, In Deep Waters explores the narrative of their family’s past and experiences of diaspora.
