Swaantje GüntzelDiasappearing glaciers and villages or The necessary adaptation of my concept after the village of Blatten was buried.
In my series ‘Crevasse’, which I have been working on since 2022, I usually remove glaciers from postcards and photos to show how big the void is that their melting leaves behind in the topography, but also in our collective memory. Since the collapse of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland, which buried the village of Blatten, everything has changed. I had to adapt my concept now that entire villages are disappearing: I am now also removing the village from the postcards.
[Swaantje Güntzel, Series "Crevasse" since 2022: 1) cropped postcard "Blatten"; 2) Pasterzengletscher (Grossglockner) / Austria, 1931, photograph cropped, 29.5 x 23.5 cm (framed); 3) Mer de Glace (Glacier Montanvert) / France, 1800, copperplate print, 30 x 34.5 cm (framed); 4) Pasterzengletscher (Grossglockner) / Austria, 1903 panoramic map cropped, 20 x 53 cm (framed)].
Fotos: Tobias Hübel, Swaantje Güntzel
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In my series ‘Crevasse’, which I have been working on since 2022, I usually remove glaciers from postcards and photos to show how big the void is that their melting leaves behind in the topography, but also in our collective memory. Since the collapse of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland, which buried the village of Blatten, everything has changed. I had to adapt my concept now that entire villages are disappearing: I am now also removing the village from the postcards.
[Swaantje Güntzel, Series "Crevasse" since 2022: 1) cropped postcard "Blatten"; 2) Pasterzengletscher (Grossglockner) / Austria, 1931, photograph cropped, 29.5 x 23.5 cm (framed); 3) Mer de Glace (Glacier Montanvert) / France, 1800, copperplate print, 30 x 34.5 cm (framed); 4) Pasterzengletscher (Grossglockner) / Austria, 1903 panoramic map cropped, 20 x 53 cm (framed)].
Fotos: Tobias Hübel, Swaantje Güntzel
#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #gletscher #glacier #blatten #schweiz #switzerland #birchgletscher #birchglacier #lötschental #bergabbruch #climatecrisis #klimakrise #merdeglace #france #frankreich #pasterzengletscher #austria #österreich #bergrutsch #landslide #postcards #postkarten
