Iceberg. Mountains Drift, Too is an urban performance and ephemeral moving sculpture conceived to temporarily inhabit and transform public space.... Read More
Iceberg. Mountains Drift, Too is an urban performance and ephemeral moving sculpture conceived to temporarily 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.
Like an actual iceberg, it reveals only a fraction of itself, gesturing toward deeper unseen forces at play.
