GHOST 7 (#1-#7): FRENCH HISTORICAL MALADIE is a sculpture series composed of red linen previously sunken in the Atlantic portion of the Loire River in Nantes. These “water bodies” of textile, dust and mud, were dried, re-sewed and then hung on iron bars, imprinting the free movements of water against the violence of colonialism, globalization, industrial production and the survival of slavery.

As part of her residency at FRAC des Pays de La Loire, Jota Mombaça continued to explore the radical gesture of «sinking» by immersing large pieces of fabrics in the waters of the Loire River in Nantes, France. More than an archive of the invisible, subterranean movements of water, the artist’s textile installations symbolize the resilience of the elements in the face of industrial violence. Waste-spectres from the depths of the sea, these «bodies of water» give form to what contemporary societies fail to control or integrate, and reject to the margins.