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What does landscape painting look like when we’re faced with satellite images of retreating glaciers?
The world’s ice is melting in one giant fade-out. Ice is constantly breaking and melting, just as the Anthropocene is progressing. Fuzzy in the back of our mind, but at the same time real like its satellite images. A state of all-embracing interconnectedness and vulnerability enters our consciousness. It passes through us, changes us, grasps us, while we are never able to understand it as a whole.
Planetary Intimacies explores a remapping of the emerging realities. Process paintings of ice cores, glacial water and mineral pigments become the borderlines of something lost, something new, something in the making. All the while, we are inseparably stuck in-between.
Folded Fractures (2021) | Mixed media site-specific installation
Gletschertrübe (2021) | Mixed media site-specific installation
“This fascinating, beautiful, and in some ways mysterious intervention feels immersive even on the screen. We’re transported into the landscape that is both canvas and subject.”
Zärtliche Zeitlichkeit (2021) | Mixed media site-specific installation
“The work of Planetary Intimacies flirts with the methodologies of other disciplines that have their way of analysing and mapping landscapes, such as cartography and scientific research. This reference means that the work immediately invites us to go beyond its aesthetic value. It encourages you to look closer, to read and understand the landscape and to engage with the loss and changes that are suggested. The canvases remain fairly abstract and don’t become too literal, allowing the viewer to interpret and fill in the remaining parts. This is a useful and important exercise in our current times, when catastrophic change happens incrementally, we have to trigger the imagination to envision what the consequences will look like.”
Planetary Intimacies is an artistic field research project. It explores new ways of accessing the Anthropocene with installative landscape painting, experimental cartography and sensory research.
It is guided by the following questions: What if we acknowledge our inner interconnectedness and vulnerability as organisms? What if we use our privileges and powers to break through inherited structures and reposition ourselves to the planet?
Top banner image: To Build a Home in the In-Between (2021) | Mixed media site-specific installation