In the film installation 'undercurrents', Holly Parotti finds a temporary reconciliation between strained dualities through a connecting factor in the globe's landscape: the ocean. Though an entity completely different from our shallow Caribbean waters, the ocean Parotti became familiar with in the English Channel near her 2011 artist's residency in Scotland provided a somewhat calming continuity of existence despite the change in landscape and culture. With side-by-side films of the ocean approaching and retreating from the shore, 'undercurrents' comfortably surrenders to the relentless push-and-pull of rapid change.
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