Victoria Hertel
Tides
Digitized analog photography shot with an Olympus XA3 compact 35mm camera, Online format, 2021
Tides (2021) is a photographic work that explores the environmental influences of overconsumption, the connective trajectories of human and nonhuman entities and the strangeness of everyday objects.
Documenting beached items at Singapore’s East Coast Park during seven consecutive low tides, the work captures the close entanglement of these discarded objects with the oceanic and coastal environment. Reflecting on encounters and the convergent narratives we share with our surroundings, the work aims to direct attention to these objects as an act of care and awareness.
Documenting beached items at Singapore’s East Coast Park during seven consecutive low tides, the work captures the close entanglement of these discarded objects with the oceanic and coastal environment. Reflecting on encounters and the convergent narratives we share with our surroundings, the work aims to direct attention to these objects as an act of care and awareness.
These items that cyclically accumulate on the shore form an extension of our interaction with nature as well as ourselves. Slowing down, being present and processing the changes in our environment unfolds opportunities for alternative approaches to our daily habits and their current extensive reverberations. The captured formations, traces and sceneries, reflect on this tidal exchange, pointing towards the larger oscillations we are intricately connected to.
Victoria Hertel is a German-Venezuelan artist working in process painting, immersive installation and material studies. Exploring the liminality of materiality, space and the body, her practice focuses on constructing distilled sensory activations to heighten and alter our awareness of our surroundings. Hertel received her BFA from the University of Barcelona and her MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE Singapore.