Poster for Lemniscata with white text on a blue abstract background

Lemniscata represents an important evolution in Sasha Fishman's eco-sculptural practice. Building on her previous work in fountain-building and biomaterials, this exhibition reflects Fishman’s continued fascination with aquatic systems of energy exchange. Her hydrological sculptures take up questions around toxicity, entropy, care, capture, and fluidity. This curiosity has led Fishman to experiment with living substrates such as fish skin, hagfish slime, and mycelium as well as kinetic structures derived from marine aquaculture such as salmon ladders and fish cannons, tracing humanity’s past and present obsession with controlling, transporting, and harnessing water from the ecosystemic down to the bodily scale. Sasha Fishman is not searching for an answer, but drawn to the murkiness—the tension, confusion, and complexity of where these phenomena arise and how technology attempts to resolve deeply rooted ecological and ethical issues.