Salt bride: Dress in Dead Sea turns white
New York, Aug. 27: A black Victorian dress submerged in the Dead Sea that underwent a dramatic transformation has become another dressthemed internet sensation.
Israeli artist Sigalit Landau put a black dress from the early 1900s into the Dead Sea for two months in 2014, and the underwater changes that occurred as salt crystals coated the fabric were captured by photographer, Yotam From. The black dress turned white from the salt, looking almost like a bridal dress, said the Independent.
The Dead Sea is almost 10 times as salty as the ocean, while it also has the lowest elevation on Earth, about 1,407 feet below the sea level. Large scale prints showing the changes were exhibited at London’s Marlborough Contemporary gallery until September 3. The dress, known as the “Salt Bride”, has become a trend on social media.
The dress is a replica of a costume worn by a character called Leah in the Yiddish play The Dybbuk, which tells the story of a young bride whose soul is possessed by an evil spirit. “Over time, the sea’s alchemy transforms the plain garment from a symbol associated with death and madness into the wedding dress it was always intended to be,” the Marlborough Contemporary gallery said. “It looks like snow, like sugar, like death’s embrace; solid tears, like a white surrender to fire and water combined,” Ms Landau said.