aniara omann
  • 2022
    • Æblet - OK Corral
    • You-holder- Contemporary Artist Things -Edition
    • The Water Beneath Us - The Factory IS
  • 2021
    • A Different Kind of Love- NEVVEN online
    • Birthday of The World- Ungefaerh5
  • 2020
    • Porous Tomorrow- Kling & Bang IS
    • Eyes larger, Foreheads longer, Fingers crossed - Catbox Contemporary, NY
  • 2019
    • Equanipolis - Humber street Gallery - UK
    • beneath the beach, seamless paving stones- Rhizome Parking Garage - online
    • Iwilledievalfutureyou1 - Art Sonje Center-KR
    • The Chasm- Franz-Josef-Kai, Wien, AT
    • Bonding in Whispers- c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, BE
    • (s)– Carlsbergbyens Galleri, DK
  • 2018
    • Cross-Feed - with Gary Zhexi Zhang- Market Gallery
    • MN_03, Speculative Wasteland, Media Naranja, Marseille
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
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Merchild is a series of small sculptures in recycled plastic, seaweed, silicone, ceramic and felted wool. The sculptures are inspired by mermaid myths and take the form of fictional futuristic sea creatures, which as a result of the drastic rise of the world’s oceans are in the process of evolving “back” to sea animals and therefore exist in an evolutionary intermediate stage between humans and animals.
Installed on walls, floors, and vertical hangings, the installation suggests that the viewer is walking on the seafloor between these various creatures from the future. These merfolk are half human, half shrimp, mussel, crab, and squid, and refer aesthetically to both cute children’s book illustrations and grotesque Nordic sea monsters.
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