Unfold: A Cultural Response to Climate Change Museum of Contemporary Photography and Glass Curtain Gallery
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But leave it to a poet to express the true pomposity of the endeavor. Seizing the reins of self-importance, Lemn Sissay rides off into the glaciers declaring, “This was a group of artists wanting to create, battling with ideas in the middle of the sea, dwarfed by icebergs and the possibility of a disappearing planet.”
Global warming as an occasion for romantic kitsch. I’m moved.
Some of the cannier contributors attempt to avoid the problem of speaking for the world by collaborating with it. Bookbinder Tracey Rowledge placed paper and felt-tip pens under the chair she sat on aboard ship and let physics do its work; the result is Arctic Drawings, a series of black or multi-colored blobs on paper. Generally isolated in one portion of the page, the blobs seem fragile and spastic—tiny random motions on a white field.
