Miguel Rothschild — Undercurrents

Miguel Rothschild gives the photographic image a paradoxical thickness and weight. In Undercurrents, the sea becomes a suspended surface: the threads holding it up expose how the illusion is made. Looking shifts between landscape and construction, attraction and threat. Photography no longer simply represents an outside world; it physically positions us before an image whose…

Une surface photographique figurant la mer est suspendue par des fils dans l’exposition Undercurrents de Miguel Rothschild.

Miguel Rothschild — Undercurrents, vue d’installation / installation view, Hastings Contemporary, 15 juin / June 2026. Photo : Rob Harris. Source : Hastings Contemporary, press images.

Miguel Rothschild gives the photographic image a paradoxical thickness and weight. In Undercurrents, the sea becomes a suspended surface: the threads holding it up expose how the illusion is made. Looking shifts between landscape and construction, attraction and threat. Photography no longer simply represents an outside world; it physically positions us before an image whose apparent stability depends on an almost invisible network.

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Exhibition: Hastings Contemporary, 13 June–13 September 2026; it brings together earlier works and new installations. Kuckei + Kuckei video published 14 June 2026. Source and context.