Sigalit Landau's Salt Bride Goes Viral, on View at Marlborough London

Israeli artist Sigalit Landau's 2014 work "Salt Bride" has gone viral online, becoming a trend beyond art circles. The piece involved submerging a black early-1900s dress in the Dead Sea for two months, where salt crystals transformed it into a white wedding gown. Underwater photographs by Yotam From capture the dress floating in the hyper-saline lake. The work is on view at Marlborough Gallery in London until September 3, alongside eight large-format photographic prints documenting the transformation. The dress is a replica of a garment from the Yiddish play "The Dybbuk," worn by the character Leah, and references Hasidic tradition. Landau, who has created numerous works in the Dead Sea, describes the site as offering "new ideas, experiments, and awareness." The Dead Sea, located 415 meters below sea level, is the deepest depression on Earth.