In this audiovisual installation, text fragments from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves intertwine with moving images of  jellyfish morphing into one another. The work is complemented by a large-scale print of the entire novel, rendered in text so small that it becomes pure texture—language transformed into a surface that resists reading.

 

Woolf’s novel is a meditation on identity, time, and transience. Six voices drift like waves through their lives, dissolving into memories, blending into one another. Their words are fragmented, elusive—much like the jellyfish, which emerge and disappear in the darkness of the video projection.

 

The video piece presents 25 dead jellyfish, each isolated against a black background. They do not exist as fixed forms but as fluid transitions—an unrelenting metamorphosis between presence and dissolution. Like Woolf’s characters, who lose themselves in language, the jellyfish dissolve, their boundaries blurring until nothing remains distinct.

 

The print adds another dimension: the complete text of The Waves is condensed into a dense, almost invisible mass. Language, typically a vehicle for communication, here becomes an unreadable surface—an echo of the novel that persists only as a visual structure. Like the sea carrying words away, like the voices of Woolf’s protagonists sinking into time, the text dissolves into its own materiality.

 

In the interplay of these three elements—the sound installation, the fluid video imagery, and the unreadable text—emerges a meditation on impermanence. Words and forms appear and vanish, identities blur, meanings slip beyond grasp.