The Gesso Age

The Gesso Age was made up of a lake with a small structure on the water’s edge. At first glance, there didn't appear to be anything useful to be found.

What the artists were after was the roe of a particular species of transparent fish. They farmed the fish and collected their roe from screens that they anchored at the bottom of the lake using a submersible pod.

The building on the surface was a power station that housed the motors and mechanisms to raise and lower the pod and supply energy to the underwater site. Both the power station and pod were in good working order when the DRC discovered them.

When the eggs were laid by the fish, the artists collected them and took them back to a workshop in Pirahnay. There, it was processed in a centrifuge to force out the liquids from the eggs, and the remaining solids were mixed with other ingredients to make the gesso used to prime canvases.

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