DeepRedShip is an installation by Christina Sfakianaki realized as a postgraduate course project in 2023-2024. At its centre floats a small red paper boat, fragile and stained, a concentrated emblem set against an expansive sea. The red functions as a visual alarm, as blood, and as an emotional charge that cuts through the cool blues that evoke the Mediterranean.

The work addresses the depression and collective shock provoked by images of drowned children and persecuted refugees, images that haunt public consciousness. The delicate paper boat, miniature in relation to the oceanic field, dramatizes vulnerability and the imbalance of power that leaves displaced people exposed to a hostile element.

Technically the installation relies on contrast of scale, simple materiality and spatial deployment. The use of platforms and staged surfaces organizes the viewer s approach, encouraging movement and changes of perspective. Lighting and composition amplify the boat s fragility against the suggestion of endless water, while the pared down form resists sentimentality and insists on a raw emotional encounter.

Through the silent presence of the red vessel and the recurrent return of the viewer s gaze to the watery expanse, DeepRedShip summons memory and collective responsibility. It asks us to look, to remember and to refuse the normalization of images of loss.