The Hydra Conundrum places the video projection of live floating Hydra at its centre, positioning the organism not simply as a biological subject but as a speculative proposition. While human hands bear the visible traces of time through ageing, injury, and adaptation, Hydra appears capable of endlessly renewing itself through stem-cell regeneration.

If we were offered Hydra’s regenerative abilities—continuous renewal, agelessness, the capacity to endlessly recreate ourselves—what would we be willing to trade in return?