Video: A sculpture traveling on an iceberg. Art project by Apa Verheggen
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Dutch author Ap Verheggen started an original art project. A sculptural composition was installed on one of the Greenlandic icebergs, which awaits an unenviable fate: it will exist until a huge block of ice melts, and then Verheggen's work will go straight to the bottom of the ocean.
A sculpture called Dog Sled Riders was installed on one of the icebergs in March this year, and two months later the iceberg started to move. Now everyone on the dedicated project can watch the movements of the drifting ice floe website … Both the iceberg and the sculpture will have a very sad fate: the ice floe will eventually melt, and the sculpture will go to the bottom. True, when exactly this will happen - no one knows.
Ap Verheggen did not start this project in order to be original or to get on the front pages of newspapers. In fact, this work has a deep meaning associated with global warming. Dog Sled Riders are the personification of the Inuit Eskimos, whose life is still associated with hunting dog sleds. Last winter was so warm that hunting became impossible for the first time, endangering the survival of this people. Now, if the climate does not become the same, these people will have to change their centuries-old way of life - otherwise they face death. “Climate change = Culture change” - this is the slogan chosen by the author for his project.
At the same time, it should be emphasized that Up Verheggen is well aware that climate change is a dynamic process, and no one can stop it. Therefore, he does not call for throwing all efforts to combat this process, but only offers to look at it from an unusual perspective: “Inuit Eskimos are forced to change their culture in accordance with climate change. One day our turn will come. Can we do it?"
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