HVALREKI
From 2013 to 2015 I was artist-in-residence at the Húsavík Research Centre on Cetaceans in North Iceland, working closely with cetologist Dr Marianne H. Rasmussen and the Húsavík Whale Museum.
For more information and images visit this repository created during this residency:
http://theseaaround.tumblr.com
Hvalreki at Tungufjöru, 1898. Archival Image from Safnahúsið á Húsavík
Installation view of Sonia Levy: Hvalreki, The Husavík Whale Museum, 2015
Detail of porcelain whale bone
Installation view of Sonia Levy: Hvalreki, The Husavík Whale Museum, 2016
Detail of porcelain whale bone
Whale skeletal remains, production image
Detail of porcelain whale bone
Hvalreki consists of a series of porcelain works made from the moulding and casting of the skeletal remains of a whale.
The acoustic resonance of the porcelain pieces was employed to amplify recordings of whale vocalisations.
The project was developed with the assistance of The Húsavík Research Centre on Cetaceans
The whale bones were all found and collected on the shores of North Iceland from marine mammals that had died by natural causes
Whale vocalisations