Erola Arcalís Shipwreck studies On myth and
representation Daguerréotype La mesa de los ausentes Rehearsing the real Lethe about
Shipwreck studies
Shipwreck Studies is a collection of objects that used to belong to my great-grandfather. A craftsman and a man of unconventional thinking, his last project was the building of a 26 meters long vessel with reclaimed materials from the sea that was to remain moored in the middle of a rocky field. Unexpectedly a provoked fire destroyed it.
Twenty-five years on I came back to the same place in the island of Menorca and gathered few of the remaining flotsam from his little utopia and travelled back to my studio in London.
A vessel settled
in a meadow
of asphodel
glass and dry fennel
[all memories dissolve]
in a meadow
of asphodel
glass and dry fennel
[all memories dissolve]
Vessel I, X, V, VII, II, III, VIII, IX
silver gelatin prints
27 x 35 cm
silver gelatin prints
27 x 35 cm
Paco Preto building his last ship on a rocky field, 1971
family archive
family archive
Erola Arcalís Shipwreck studies On myth and
representation Daguerréotype La mesa de los ausentes Rehearsing the real Lethe about