SUBMERGE
Sculpture, video performance
2023/2024

Anna Franke immerses her body with fabric and water in a slow, ritual process. She is drawn to the memory and movement of the sea — to make its traces visceral. Through this act of submersion, an immediate relationship emerges—between movement, material, and the sea.
By bathing both body and fabric, she explores connection, transformation, touch, and the trace of water.
Light, reflection, and current shape moving sculptures that evoke organic, sea-like forms.
The materials—salt, gold, natural pigment, charcoal, oyster shells, and wax—carry marks of erosion, friction, and time. Where water has passed, it leaves lines that are at once paths, scars, and memories. It’s an exploration of the intersection of human, non-human, and natural forces, resulting in remnants that embody memory and erosion.

The results are sculptures in motion, captured their slow movements in video and by the installation of the sculpture in the space, floating above the viewer.
The work moves between ritual, corporeality, and landscape, deeply interwoven with the rhythms and myths of the Galician coast.