portrait of a glacier, genius loci
is part of a research project and was exhibited in This is Not a Glacier @ AIL Vienna, an exhibition I co-curated in 2024
genius loci, “the intangible quality of a material place, perceived both physically and spiritually. It reveals itself through visible tangible and perceivable non-material features. It is also made known by underlying processes, because genius loci is a signifier of a process that is happening and cannot intentionally be created.” - Marilena Vecco
Landscape painting is an inherently colonial and violent act, depicting land as tabula rasa, terre neuve. How do you paint land? How do you know, how do you experience a place?
Happenings:
1 Apprenticeship to Glaciology - prepratory workshops in march 2023, excusion to Suldenferner, (AT/IT) August 2023
2 This is not a Glacier, exhbition of artistic research and symposium, Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, January - February 2024