Tidelines

Tidelines ebb and flow sinuously through a confluence of two ocean currents and converge in a symphony of foam, seaweed, and other floating debris. They are a sign of bodies of water meeting and becoming enmeshed, a testament to the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the ripple effects of their codependence.

This process of intermixing forces was the powerful through line of Tidelines, an exhibition that presented works produced together by Maria Chekhanovich Nerssesian (Miri Chek), Kuh Del Rosario, and Cecilia McKinnon. The artists worked together in self-described gestures of repetition—“gathering, dehydrating, grinding, cooking, casting, and flocking”—with the materials that they had collected, including “kitchen compost, mineral remnants, and household and studio waste,” and then translated this concoction into “durational sculptures which desiccate, crystalize, melt, or host new life,” to quote the statement that accompanied the exhibition.