The project MELT is about longing and grief for a winter landscape that can no longer be taken for granted. With film and performance the climate crisis is explored from the perspective of the Polar Animals. In the exhibition hall the Polar Animals reconstruct their lost habitat of snow and ice based on their memories. Ice melts glaciers are rebuilt, and the fractal patterns of snowflakes are visualized in films projected onto the Iceberg, a mountain built from white cardboard boxes. The habitat of the Polar Animals becomes a space where film performance and installation merge and where the iceberg becomes a stage for dance and meditation. MELT creates a space for reflection on a changing climate.
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