Kim Bode

Stones from deepest seas to call for Sirens (2025)

all around the space, rock beings grow, clothed in grey and roughish skins. some sing if inclined creatures rock them gently back and forth to activate their internal waters, and some create frequencies when gently rubbed against each other. some carry the shapes of beings who laid down and decided to become mountains:

“Over time sedimentary layers get compressed and twisted; great upheavals scramble acres of desire and frustration and loneliness until they become so mixed up even the most expert geologists abandon the possibility of untangling dates and seismic events. Rocks like Jenny have great waves inside of them, like the ocean, only slower.” Callum Angus - A Natural History of Transition: Rock Jenny, 2021

the rough and the singing are kin with deep sea rock formations called manganese nodules. over millenia layers of mineral concretions that form around something – a shell,a tooth, a fragment, an idea heavy enough – that has reached the bottom of the ocean. these deepest things, these archives of deep time are mined by robots. their minerals oscillating with deep sea destruction shine on euro notes.

material: ceramics, water, net, rope
set of 40 stones and three siren water-whistles all individual

size: between 3x5x5cm up to 25x15x10cm

“stone on the bottom of the ocean says
this is not a cul de sac
I know where all the blind allies lead
and it‘s a place you need to fill with love
(be kind and fight at the same time)”
Frida Hyvonen - Silence is Wild, 2008

Text for the exhibition soft gardens by Suza Husse