breaching mammals











A series of modular sculptures, departing from Alexis Pauline Gumbs' Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and the figure of the whale, a land creature that returned to the sea. Breaching, the act of launching the body above the waterline and crashing back down, is both a form of long-distance communication and a gesture of collective play, bridging what lies beneath and what surfaces above. The sculptures hold this gesture, forms suspended between worlds, neither fully submerged nor entirely surfaced. Assembled from interchangeable parts, they carry the possibility of multiple configurations, each a different body, a different crossing, creatures mid-transformation between what was and what could be.

The “breaching mammals” series was part of “The Waves Crashing” curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos VIMA Art Fair 2026, Limassol, Cyprus
Photos by Daria Makurina










2026