Humano Terrarum
Light
Exhibited in ARCTIC TERRAIN – Nordatlantiskhus, Odense, Denmark – April 25th to August 31st, 2024
The artist uses a digital projector to drape a series of still and moving images over the model's body - using her terrain as a topographic counterpoint to the projections. In Sermilinguaq and Iviangiussat, contours representing the landscape of actual geographic locations in Greenland are projected, in one, a natural aerial view is projected, while in Nunap isikkua 2, Greenlandic words representing aspects of the natural environment are draped. The video installation, Mapa Mundi MMXXIII presents an extension of the theme using landscapes derived from widely distant worldwide locations. While exotic birdsong, tropical plants and megacities may seem distant from the Arctic, the installation reminds that the wider world strongly influences the Arctic, just as changes in the Polar regions have profound effects globally.
Sermilinguaq
54 x 54 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
Sermilinguaq is the 'place of my dearest, sweet glacier'. Glaciers can be daunting, inhospitable landscapes, but they are all heart – the beating heart of Greenland, regulating the weather of coastal landscapes, the level, temperature and currents of surrounding seas. Contours of this sweetest glacier, in the hills west of Sermersuut (Hamborgerland), close to the Inland Ice, drape over the model's legs and flow downward into the darkness. In the background their colour changes, to reflect the Northern Lights, all recalling the splendour and intricacy of Greenland's landscape.
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Nunap isikkua 2
54 x 36 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
The Greenlandic language is a landscape – Nunap isikkua. Its vocabulary is renowned for a richness in diversity of words describing the natural environment, not just, famously, for snow, but for landscape, sea and weather. Among the words draped over the model's landscape are qaarsoq – cliff, ujarak qarmassaq – boulders, qilak – sky, kalleq – thunder, neriusaaq – rainbow, anorersuaq – storm, qooroq – valley, kangerluk – fjord, ippik – fast-receding cliff.
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Nuuk
68 x 54 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
Coming home to Nuuk presents a human landscape from the air. This landscape projected on the model recalls the effects we have on the wider environment, not only what is seen, but what is not seen. The mystery of the hidden topography lies in the places where we don't see houses and roads – where we feel the effects of our actions warming, cooling, finding feedback from the terrain.
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Map Mundi MMXXIII
1080p
Video installation
Various Mapas Mundi have existed over history – Maps of the World. With footage shot in Brisbane (Australia), Kap Agulhas – the southern tip of Africa – and Touws River (South Africa), Taipei (Taiwan) and Nuuk (Greenland), the artist paints landscapes of hot desert, tropical forest, urban environments and cold Arctic deserts over a single model. This consistency places the model as mankind, with global influence. The audience is reminded that our world has no corners. What happens worldwide has impacts in Greenland, and vice versa.
Iviangiussat
54 x 36 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
On the southern part of Maniitsoq island resides a hill – Iviangiussat. The contours representing this hillside of two, similar elevation, rounded peaks reflect symmetry and beauty in the human form – pairs of knees, breasts – two distinct parts, yet the same, like human and environment. In the background, the changing colours of the contours adopt the shimmering greens and complexity of Greenland's majestic Northern Lights.
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Contour lines, where projected on the model, were generated using data from the Polar GeoSpatial Center's ArcticDEM issued under CC-BY-4.0.
mthStudios use only the very best archive-quality materials. Each photograph is one of an editioned series strictly limited to nine prints in perpetuity. The images are realised with highest archive-quality professional materials - paper, inks, acrylic and bonding materials guaranteed under ISO 9706. Diasec™ acrylic lamination leads the field, typically with a maximum of one production facility licensed per country worldwide. With image integrity in excess of 200 years, each art work becomes both artwork and investment. Further information about the Diasec™ printing process can be found here.
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