Thawing Dreams, voices are water, Spitebergen Artist Center, Lognyearbyen Juli 14th, 2024
Thawing Dreams, voices are water
Thawing Dreams, voices are water follows Frozen Dreams, luminous voices in the night and is the second chapter of a project realised during residencies at the Spitsbergen Artists Centre in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway in winter 2023 and summer 2024.
After the long night of the winter solstice, the second chapter of the Arctic adventure took place, as planned, on the long day of the summer solstice.
Summer is here, and the icy landscape melts into sonorous rivulets of water dripping from the mountains and glaciers in a multitude of trickling, fragile streams, burrowing twisted canyons in the ice; flowing between coal-black, iron-red and multi coloured boulders immersed in the innumerable shades of green and brown of the musks dotted with the bright colours of minute flowers; roaring in the constant flush of the muddy Longyearelva, which rises from the ice of the Longyearbreen to flow into the Adventfjiorden and Adventdalen at Longyerbyen, the northernmost city in the world.
Water, sun, and wind have spent millions of years shaping these mountains that collapse into counterforts of boulders, stones, and pebbles.
At this hour, when the
rigours of winter have passed, the serenity and temper of the good old
days come to the fore. Dreams thaw and are heard like voices rising from
shallow piles of stones resting on the floor of a different room in the
same art gallery that had hosted the frozen voices falling from the
roof, just one night ago.
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