Atlantis

Christine Ödlund’s soundless Atlantis is a subaqueous world of billowing plants and sunken architecture. A submerged civilisation where only a few survivors seem to live on in the safety of laboratories and bunkers deep beneath the surface. We sense the aftermath of a disaster in the wake of environmental crises and melting polar caps.

This work is based on scientific microscopic photographs in the spirit of the marine film-maker Jean Painlevé, whose credo was “science is fiction”. But our associations are also led in other directions – towards surrealism, mysticism and early Sci-Fi. Ödlund’s films, sound works and installations appear to listen in to a reality that lies beyond physicality.