Project Akunnaaq:
The alternative process of pictures on raw steel create a mirror game
between the work and our environment. Indeed, without special cares and
attention steel will oxide and such as our ecosystem begun an
irreversible deterioration.
In a world where images, as esthetical objects or vectors of
meanings, are massively broadcasted through medias, they seems to become
more and more inconsequential, transformed in a trivial consumption
product. Thus, my work, deeply inspired by conceptual and
auto-destructive art intends to go beyond image to question spectators
about their responsibilities and the impact of their living habits on
our environment.
Each year, the Earth Overshoot Day comes sooner and it is from now on
impossible to deny the impact of the mindless human activity on the
planet.
Realized during a one month immersion in the wild arctic circle,
points one of the consequences of this activity: climate deregulation.
Indeed, Akunnaaq, through alternation of close up and wide shot,
narrate my journey in the boreal land and testify about the early
progressive debacle and ice melt down which occurred 2 month and a half
before the regular period.
The submited work
Akunnaaq
#1: The perfect balance is the first picture on raw steel
extracted from this serie of
20 works. It presents a close up shot of the pack ice at the begining of my journey ( April the 2nd 2019)