How the Mighty Are Falling II is a public installation composed of eight monumental shark fins made from recycled fishing nets.
The material is not neutral: these nets once fished, captured, and exhausted marine life. Transformed into sculpture, they now catch light, wind, and the viewer's gaze.
Each fin represents a different shark species, distinguished through its shape and presence. Together, the eight fins form a fragmented collective body - an assembly of absences that evokes both the diversity of shark life and the scale of its decline.
The mesh allows the eye to pass through. You can see through the fins, as if they were becoming transparent, as if sharks were disappearing, as if they had already disappeared. This experience lies at the heart of the work: a monumental presence that already contains its own absence.
Installed in the river, the fins float and shift with the current and the wind, giving the work a haunting, almost living presence. As viewers walk among them, they encounter neither monsters nor symbols, but vulnerable beings suspended between visibility and disappearance.
