Selachimorpha: Orectolobiformes

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

For the Selachimorpha project Joey Holder used a specific scene from the movie Jaws (1975) as a starting point to see how manipulated images are appropriated and disseminated by Internet culture as “fact”. The scene where a shooting star flashes behind the back of the Roy Scheider character became the trigger for the emergence of conspiracy theories. The ease of adaptation and subsequent dissemination of images such as deserts, outer space and oceans provides a rich breeding ground for fiction and imagination. The project was named as the scientific classification of sharks (modern sharks are a group of plate-gill fish of the Selachimorpha (Selachii) class). This project exists between actual and fictional images, symbols, and memes; making the ever-changing belief systems we use to define our world explicit.