C H R I S T I N A S E E L Y | Perdita, In Finding(s)

In this current complex moment of dramatic; political, cultural, and environmental flux, Perdita, In Finding(s), faces into the inherent tentativeness brought on by exponential change. Using the word perdita, Latin for “lost”, and drawing from the content of an archive of materials, or “findings” accumulated over the last ten years of expeditionary travels to the arctic and tropics, the project functions as a set of impossible riddles and cues that invite a search for intentional meanings and interconnections that cannot be found. While this invitation points to the fundamental human proclivity of our need to understand, the work as a set of visual puzzles that are designed to fail, has the aim of finding a home in ongoing disorientation.