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Even If The Nets Break, The Farmed Salmon Can Never Escape Their Modified Bodies (2025) reactivates a community banner originally created in 2022 in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. At the time, a Norwegian salmon farming company presented a proposal to establish a new open-net salmon farm in the local fjord. In response, members of the local community collectively produced and displayed the banner as a form of collective action addressing local environmental concerns.
The banner was first created within the LungA School Spring '22 Art Program. It subsequently influenced a series of fishnet-based works, including Fishnet Love Jacket and Fish Fountain, which were exhibited as installations in the Riders Tech Group Show in Seyðisfjörður (2022), and later became part of the performance costume for MÄRCHENBRUNNEN (Fairy Fountain) at Haus der Statistik, Germany (2023).
In 2025, the work was re-collaged, reinterpreted, and reactivated for Process, Process, Process!, a sustainable Arctic art and design exhibition curated by Lin Ni at the Katve Galleries, Arktikum Museum. Rather than presenting a retrospective, this iteration extends the work's ongoing becoming, while marking the artist's return to Seyðisfjörður to begin a multi-year artistic research project through collaborative artistic practice that opens up new relations.