Iceberg. Mountains Drift, Too

Iceberg. Mountains Drift, Too is a time-based collective performance and ephemeral moving sculpture conceived to inhabit and transform public space. A human body, wrapped in a shimmering stretch of golden paper, takes on the shifting form of a mountain. Presented within the Arte Laguna Prize, this golden iceberg traverses the monumental architecture of the Arsenale Nord, engaging with the public during the opening and offering a visual and sensorial meditation on fragility (both human and environmental) in a city like Venice, itself precariously poised between survival and submersion.

Slowly moving through the space, the body becomes a threshold that leaves behind a trail of inquiry. Taking its cue from a reflection on the notion of monument (its weight, codes, and hold over memory), Iceberg also speaks to the contemporary conditions of migration and transition of human and more-than-human bodies, and to the urgent challenges of climate collapse. It is a human sculpture in motion, vulnerable and ungraspable, suspended in a state of becoming. It could also turn into a shelter to hide in, yet it reveals more than it conceals, bringing to light what often remains unseen.

To experience the core of the performance, the public is invited to enter the iceberg in a choral action. Together with the artist, they will lift the golden paper and set the icy mountain in motion.

Like an actual iceberg, it reveals only a fraction of itself, gesturing toward deeper forces at play.