A new show at Fridman Gallery in New York features recent work by artists Professor Shiva Ahmadi, Yacine Fall and Fidelis Joseph whose work explores the human condition and our relationship to Earth. “The Flow” is on view from Nov. 21-Dec. 21, 2024.

Professor Shiva Ahmadi’s stop-motion animation Marooned is a center piece of the exhibition. Composed of 5,600 hand-drawn watercolors, Marooned depicts a group of figures digging large rocks from the ground and hauling them over a hill to construct a pathway in the ocean towards a marooned oil tanker. Menacing ghouls appear in greater and greater numbers and, just as the pathway is nearing completion, maliciously circumvent the creatures who constructed it, reaching the oil tanker and swiftly steering it beyond the frame.

An opening reception is scheduled for Nov. 21 from 6-8 pm and an artist talk on Friday, Nov. 22 at 6 pm.