GERTRUDE. Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend. Which is the mightier. (Hamlet 4.1.9) 

Fourteen Amphorea to be shown in the small gallery at Galerija Flora in October, 2022 before being submerged 20-40 meters under the sea and then retrieved in September, 2023 when shown with the larger body of work.

Project Description 

Renée Delores presents three pieces (one black and white print, fourteen Amphorae, and a double projection film) installed as an experimental examination of the play Hamlet. She uses the play as a symbolic and structural framework to probe the fragility of shared human history, in the dance of tightrope navigation over environmental and relational tribulations. Like Ophelia, how can we reconcile our collective or individual paradoxical selves? Her men insist that she be chaste, preserving equilibrium, but still her soul yearns, and she is left with no way to unravel these contradictory expectations.

When read holistically, one is confronted with a cipher of beauty and bewilderment inherent to the human condition. The capacity for making decisions most aligned with our interests triggers resolute action, but the actions frequently are cloaked in veils of illusion, The three pieces of the installation connect as a meditation on Nature, Hamlet, and ultimately, what it means to live, to love, to feel a sense of ambiguous loss, and to harbor the pain of exile and longing in search of meaning in a world out of joint. What follows is an elaboration on the three pieces.