Work 001
Artwork technical data sheet
Documentary registry & conservation catalogue
- Artist
- Marllha Zertuche
- Title
- The Sea Horse (that arrived in pieces at the beach)
- Year
- 2025
- Technique
- Assembled sculpture / assemblage
- Materials
- Driftwood. Internal structure of metal mesh reinforced with galvanized wire and a polyurethane core.
- Dimensions
- 1.50 m (Height)
- Weight
- 18 kg
- Collection
- Private collection
Analysis & aesthetic description
There is a certain magic in working with materials that come from the sea. Driftwood speaks in its own way: its forms, marks, and textures tell something of where it has been and of what transformed it before it reached the beach.
That is how I found this sea horse: in plain sight of everyone and, at the same time, of no one. It did not appear complete. It arrived in pieces. I gathered each fragment while imagining how it could belong to a single body, until what had been scattered began to recognize itself as one creature.
“I am only giving shape to caprice.”
Visual registry
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