2018
Slow Violence is a site-responsive intervention in which a glacier documents its own extinction.
By strategically placing blue-tinted sheets of paper underneath melting areas of the glacier, the ice mapped its slow but steady disappearance. The unstopping, yet constant dripping of meltwater slowly washed away the blue pigment; creating images that are not only made by the agency of the glacier in itself, but which contain its own history.
The intervention takes its name from Rob Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), who describes it as “a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all”.
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Non-toxic waterbased ink and glacial detritus on Zerkall-300g 100% cotton acid-free paper.
total of 30 glacial paintings
55 x 38 cm each
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Photography and documentation by Carlota Anton and Miguel Sbastida.
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