Nina Katchadourian’s (Incoming Visual Arts Fellow 2023) solo exhibition, To Feel Something That Was Not Of Our World, opens today, July 8th, at Pace Gallery in London. The show will be on view until August 5th.
To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World is a response to the experiences described in Survive the Savage Sea (1973) by Dougal Robertson, a book Katchadourian encountered at age seven and has reread nearly every year since. The book recounts the story of how Robertson, his wife, three of their children, and a friend survived for 38 days adrift in a tiny dinghy in the Pacific Ocean after a pod of orcas attacked and sank their boat. To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World invites viewers into a personal-museological exhibition of videos, sculptures, photographs, drawings, text message exchanges, and excerpts from nearly 50 hours of audio recordings. This exhibition takes place on the 50th anniversary of the shipwreck during the very time period when the castaways were adrift.
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