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There was a Never, there was a Yes
2023
HD video, 16:9, 16 min, sound

Sound design: Pieter Vandenhoudt

In the film, the figure of a fish-human stands as a metaphor for both the genealogy of the universe and that of the artist. We follow the journey of a ceramic fish as it passes from one hand to the next, from place to place, from one time to another. Along the way, we encounter grandmothers, mothers, and daughters, moving through a poem about the past, present, and future of human and more-than-human inhabitants of the planet. Shifting between lines of individual genealogy and cosmic creation, the work reflects on how constellations of relationality take shape across time. Separate yet interconnected narratives converge to contemplate history and ecology, fish and mothers, spaceships and the sea.