LARSEN'S LOST WATER : Curated by Edwina fitzPatrick

13 Nov-11 Dec 2015

Overview

The exhibition, timed to coincide with the United Nation’s Climate Change Summit in Paris, takes its name from Antarctica’s Larsen Ice Shelf. In 2002, part of this vast Shelf fell into the sea. The satellite images of this happening brought global warming and melting Polar ice into the public consciousness. But what happened to this melted water? The exhibition considers how relatively uncharted parts of the world – the Polar regions and the deep seas – might be (mis) represented, and how art can offer us a way to engage with and witness something as large and difficult to grasp as climate change or marine pollution.