Casey & Luca, 2025

Casey & Luca, 2025, Acrystal, pigment, clay, metal, 93 × 92 × 29 cm

In 2025, Heike Kabisch presented Memories in deep creeks at ChertLüdde Gallery–a poetic exploration of imagined underwater sanctuaries inhabited by hybrid marine beings suspended between evolution and decay. Central to the exhibition is a series of sculpted seahorses, sculpted from acrystal and scaled to human proportions. Each is given a carefully chosen human name—such as Sascha, Andy, Casey, or Luca—to evoke a sense of identity and emotional connection.
This ongoing series subverts mythological conventions, as some seahorses have human legs, while others entwine their tails in gestures of closeness. All have their eyes closed, as if recalling memories or resting from unseen journeys. Their scientific name, hippocampus, deepens this metaphor: both a seahorse and the brain’s memory center, shaped like the very creature it names.