Sonya Dyer: hybrida composita

4 Mar-1 Jun 2025

hybrid composita, 2025. Credit: © Sonya Dyer. Photograph by Pheonix Tanner.

Overview

hybrida composita is an imagined sea creature from the future, created by Dyer after she studied The Box’s critically endangered and near extinct marine specimens, all of which were collected, documented and preserved by scientists over a century ago.

Dyer’s practice explores questions about survival in a future world affected by ecological disaster. 'hybrida composita' features a display case designed to mimic the traditional displays found in the collections, inviting us to think about how museums preserve, catalogue and exhibit the past.

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