“Shadows of the oceans” (2025)
Shadow of the Oceans is a suspended tribute. A net stretched in space, from which drift, like veils, the floating images of Sri Lankan fishermen.
For two weeks, Mirial followed them. With bare hands, through slow gestures, they haul in their nets of fish and plastic as one retrieves a memory.
They live at the edge of everything: the ocean, poverty, oblivion. They are the shadows of a shoreline they mark each day with their passage.
To translate this invisible imprint, Mirial turns to long exposure. Their silhouettes blur, becoming almost spectral, like the echo of a presence fading away, mirroring an ocean in decline…
