ROV Hercules visiting benthic shimmers: “I hope they have a friend somewhere, cheering them on as they give such an amazing display of their skill and their beauty.” (2025)

set of 5 individual shimmers
material: stainless steel, reet
size ranges between: ca. 30x30x15cm and ca. 30x45x15cm
title inspired by
Nautilus Live - Exceptional Footage of Chaunacops and Dumbo Octopus in Palau


sea beings, musical bodies.
hot cold. soft hard.
fluffs, stalks, bundles in metallic bodies. metallic times.
swamp plants softening water
land transitions in amphibious ways.
“’I am transported to the ocean’s most intimate core. Light falls on an eerie world! While caves suck in my metallic and winged body, rockets take off, I say. Whales swallow pieces of fallen stars. Large estuaries open up to the sun.” Etel Adnan - Sea and Fog (2012)
Text for the exhibition soft gardens by Suza Husse


exhibition views photographed by studio bessemer