page_title: Simon Faithfull
section_title: REEF, 2014
hierarchical_section_title: Simon Faithfull / Notable artworks / REEF, 2014
caption_attribution_description: English: Sinking the Brioney Victoria. Image courtesy of Weber Industries.
context_page_description: Simon Faithfull is an English artist based in Berlin and London. His work has been widely exhibited in both international solo and group exhibitions, including Musee des Beaux Arts, Fabrica FRAC Basse Normandie, The British Film Institute Gallery, London; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; CRAC Alsace, France, Stills, Edinburgh; and the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 as part of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion.
context_section_description: Reef saw Faithfull intentionally sink a boat called the Brioney Victoria off the coast of Southwest England. The boat was scuttled as a live event on 4 August 2014 with five cameras mounted onboard transmitting a live video stream of the boat making its final journey to the bottom of the sea. The video-work created from this event uses footage from these 5 cameras and documentation from a number of other vantage points, to tell the story of a process of transformation. The film presents the very beginning of a slow metamorphosis from defunct vessel at the end of its life, to the creation of an artificial reef – a process that will take further hundreds or even thousands of years to complete.
caption: REEF (2014). Sinking the Brioney Victoria. Image courtesy of Weber Industries.
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