{"id":2032,"date":"2020-09-04T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/?post_type=oeuvre&p=2032"},"modified":"2021-01-19T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:49:39","slug":"tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/oeuvre\/tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipping Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tipping Point<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BARTH\u00c9L\u00c9MY ANTOINE-LOEFF<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Plastic artwork<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In 2014, the glacier named Okj\u00f6kull passed out due to the climate change. It’s the first Icelandic glacier to disappear. This disapperance marks a tipping point, since we estimate that the glaciers located in our lattitudes should loose 80% of their mass of ice by 2100. Two billion of people will be directly impacted by the disappearance of these glaciers.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installation Tipping Point<\/em> is a sensitive and poetic tribute to those dying glaciers. It stages the (re)birth of an artificial glacier protected by a dome; a drip is feeding the glacier that will grow during the exhibition. The device invites the viewer to attend the birth of this artificial glacier. It is inspired by the “ice stupas” invented by the engineer Sonam Wangchuk and used to fight against water shortages during the summer in Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between a laboratory experiment, an attempt to repair the climate or an ironic collector’s item, the installation confronts us with time and scales ;  10,000 years ago, the stabilization of our cryosphere coincided with the firts human traces we found in Mesopotamia, while the fist glaciers are disappearing in 70 years under the pressure of the human activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Gregoire EDOUARD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a9 Gregoire EDOUARD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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