When I think about getting rid of ICE, and about the threat our country is to Greenland, our other allies, and the habitable climate of the earth, I come back to the series of sculptures Olafur Eliasson made in 2015-2016.
To make The presence of absence, Eliasson collected fragments of ice from Greenlandic glaciers floating at sea, in this case, Nuuk Kangerlua, the large western fjord by Greenland’s capital, and cast them in concrete forms in his studio. “The melting glacier produced sounds like miniature explosions.” It took about a month, and left a physical memory of the ice, a void.
There’s a great video of the void from Eliasson’s 2016 show at neugerrimschneider in Berlin. [olafureliasson.net]