What happens when a penguin sets off on its own and goes to the mountains?
In 2019, I saw Werner Herzog's film Encounters at the End of the World. Since then, I have been thinking about the question over and over again in a series of paintings:
What if a penguin sets off on its own and set off for the mountains.
Exhibition View | Galvani Gallery Nuremberg 2023
Herzog searches for "ecstatic truth": a deeper, poetic reality that facts alone cannot reach. My glacial work with Planetary Intimacies scans, maps, and examines ice to do, in a way, the same. Yet the more data I collect, the more I feel like that penguin.
–
