Video: Waiting for the flood. Isaac Cordal climate installations
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Humanity's activities greatly affect the Earth's climate. This process has been proceeding especially rapidly over the past few decades. The temperature on the planet is rising, glaciers are melting, the level of the World Ocean is rising. It is for these disastrous changes that the artist prepares us Isaac Cordal in their series installations Waiting for climate change.
Many artists nowadays turn in their work to the problem of irreversible change in the planet's climate as a result of Global Warming. Examples include the street lighting project DUMBO Underwater in New York, London's Plunge installations and post-apocalyptic postcards from the London Future series. All these works show how the life of the largest cities in the world will change when the level of the World Ocean rises.
The artist Isaac Kordal addresses the same question in his series of installations Waiting for climate change. In these works, he showed people who are rapidly sinking under the water, taken by surprise by rising sea levels, or, conversely, living on special poles, expecting global shocks.
In each of these installations, the artist used one or more human figurines (25 centimeters high). They were positioned and filmed so that the viewer had the impression that they were full-size copies of a person who had fallen under the destructive effect of the elements.
In some of the works of the Waiting for climate change series, the figures are buried on the surf line (the scene of the action is the coast of Flanders), while others stand on poles, which symbolizes the readiness of individuals for an imminent disaster.
The meaning of these installations by Isaac Kordal is to show the passivity of people in relation to climate change. They prefer not to notice this problem until the very last moment, or simply prepare in advance for problems, doing absolutely nothing to prevent them as yet possible.
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