CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BECOME AN UPWARD FEVER
The dance of temperature monitored by clinical mercury thermometers.
Climate change has become a profitable business, so much so that it influences many economic, financial and speculative fields. Green fever has broken out in the investment sector.
Like stock market charts, mercury rises and falls stimulated by sudden changes in temperature.
Climate Change Fever is a collection of works by artist ANDREA PAPI that reflects on the repercussions of climate change on the market and culture.
The first work consists of eleven mercury clinical thermometers arranged in sequence whose sensor for detecting the temperature is stimulated by lights with strong heat emission capable of moving the mercury contained inside. By controlling the lights and the ambient temperature, a choreography of rises and falls in the mercury column is created, giving meaning to climate change.
The second work consists of a clinical mercury thermometer bent at an angle of 37° corresponding to the temperature index of the same name. In mathematics the degree symbol is used to indicate the width of an angle, in natural sciences the degree indicates temperature values; in this work the symbol indicates both values simultaneously. The work reflects on the ambivalent value of climate change where seen as a serious problem and at the same time elsewhere as a great opportunity for profit.
