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In this show we will dedicate the booth to a single project with works that had been derived from an expedition to Ilulissat (Greenland). In Ilulissat the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere, the Godhaven glacier, is calving gigantic icebergs into Diskobay. In 2007, I set out with two boats in the Arctic night and executed an intervention by staging these icebergs with commercial available movie lights and creating a modeled reality on a given topographical landscape. This intervention was documented on photographic film. These photographic works will be shown and juxtaposed to it you will find a mirror with an etched map: the worldview from the Arctic. The mirror is attached to a heat exchanger. The exchanger is adapted to a microclimate in the room itself.
As more people enter the room the ice on the mirror will melt. During the night with no visitors in the room the mirror will slowly freeze over. Aside of the photographs and the mirror there will be 2 videos, one of a rotating iceberg (artificial light in the arctic night) and a collection/compilation of Youtube video’s entitled Nowhere To be Found. A perfume named “The Taste of Discovery” was developed for this project and contains my memories of this expedition. It smells to Diesel, Motor oil, damp cloth, sweat.
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 Mathias Kessler, Ilulissat 001, Greenland, 2007, Edition of 6: (2ex.) 47,2 x 90,6 inch, (2 ex) 39,4 x 74,8 inch, (2 ex.) 27,6 x 51,2 inch, Digital C print Diasec, face in mount on 3 mm nonreflective gallery Plexi, Dibond backing and back brace |
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 Mathias Kessler, Frozen Mirror (worldview from the Arctic), 2008, 37.5 x 18.82 inch, Compressor. Coiling coils. Etched mirror, Edition of 10 |
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 Mathias Kessler, Rotating Iceberg, 2009, Video, 48sec., High def. Video, Edition of 6 |
