OVER… Photo art exhibition in HDK-Valand

Photography exhibition in HDK-Valand, Göteborg, Sweden, about climate change and the melting of glaciers.

Photography exhibition in the Gallery Monitor in HDK-Valand, Göteborg, Sweden.

The exhibition opening took place in Göteborg on Friday 1st of November. Beside the exhibited images there were information about several spots that could be seen in the images and how they are suffering extinction in the next years.

In my art project, I try to reflect some light on the situation of glaciers and how the overuse of resources is bringing the climate to a drastic level and threaten the existence of glaciers. I got the idea for the project from the screens when one overuse his memory reserve parts of the images start to disappear and instead we see blank or black pixel-like squares. In the images I demonstrate the endangered parts that I imagine they would be gone in the future in a form of white squares.

the overuse of resources and over consuming is strongly related to global warming and we are all taking part in it. The results are drastic to our future, peace, environment, and economy. The series deals with the change in landscape and shrinking of glaciers, especially in the Alps, Iceland, and Spain. Even if we manage to stop the climate from warming any further, keeping it at the level of the past 10 years, glaciers would still lose about 40% of their present-day volume by 2050 because of this “glacier response time,” says Zekollari.

On Monday I had an open discussion and talk with the audience about the idea and what could be done to save the glaciers from vanishing.