Composing Oceans

The Composed Oceanscapes works play with tension and distorted perspectives, revealing the complex relationship between our past and our future, and the feeling of drifting between the two. There, in the sea where your feet can no longer quite touch the ground, you detach from the land and feel estranged in the space between the deep, unknown waters stretching out before you and the familiar land you leave behind.

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In a time when polarisation, digitalisation, individualisation, and social pressures constantly pull at us, the desire to disappear for a moment grows, to pause in that elusive in-between space. Through her works, Holman creates room for the longing to linger at that moment when everything comes to a standstill, when a rough sea becomes serene. There is an urge to pour that space into your own surreal world, where in each piece you can define the laws of gravity yourself.

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She explored the urge for control, fantasy, desire, silence, the sublime, and surrender. But what if you reach the place you longed for? Is it the ultimate escape, or does it exist only in our imagination? No matter how persistent our attempts, it cannot be shaped or grasped. And the past and the future will continue to push and pull like the tides of the ocean.

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2024, 320 x 210 x 140 cm / Material: Plexiglass, Tinted water