Little Fish

Little Fish centres a six‑metre‑long constellation of cast glass body fragments—echoing the broken torsos and limbs of classical Roman and Greek statuary—as a meditation on how history sediments in and through the body. These partial forms suggest both damage and survival, standing in for how cultural memory is preserved, edited, and eroded across generations.

Beneath this sculptural field, a fifteen‑minute durational moving‑image work with sound reveals young children swimming beneath the glass forms, as though contained within the box‑like plinth below. The pool becomes an ocean‑like environment that shifts from emptiness, through the lyrical play of children, towards a crowded scene tipping into panic. In this slow build, the work maps a precise choreography of paradox: the idyll of childhood and the brutality of nature, care and risk, inheritance and exposure.

Little Fish is a compelling, quietly mysterious meditation on the condition of today’s children, who—like all generations—move within the deep time of culture— held, watched, and endangered under the weight of histories they did not choose yet are somehow compelled to carry.

Experience the immersive nature of this installation in the video below, overlaid with the work’s original sound composition.