Dimensions: image: 615 x 855 mm support: 615 x 855 mm frame: 630 x 867 x 40 mm
Copyright: © Anya Gallaccio, courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: This work is titled White Ice by Anya Gallaccio. It's currently part of the Tate Collections. Editor: Brrr, it looks so cold! The icy blues and whites create a really desolate, frozen landscape. Curator: Gallaccio often plays with themes of transformation and decay. Ice, of course, is transient, suggestive of ephemerality. Considering environmental politics, what does this fragility communicate? Editor: Perhaps it's a commentary on climate change, on the melting ice caps and the vulnerability of our planet. There's a stark beauty here, but also an unsettling reminder of loss. We should all be moved to action by this image, thinking about our role. Curator: The politics of beauty can be complicated. But it certainly resonates with important contemporary debates. It has me thinking about art's role in activism. Editor: And for me, how a seemingly simple image can hold so much depth.
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White Ice 2002 is a medium-size screenprint on a reflective acrylic surface depicting a partially abstract winter scene. The upper left portion of the image features dense white patches that resemble snow or ice hanging down from the branches of a tree. In the lower part of the image, deep black tones are combined with further areas of snow and ice to suggest the recession of space, giving the scene the appearance of a rural landscape scene. The combination of the screenprinted image with the mirrored acrylic surface lends the work a blurred quality, so that while some detail is visible in the crystals of ice, the scene looks flat and somewhat abstract. Many of the white icy forms are accented with coatings of glitter that catch the light when seen in the gallery, an effect that is enhanced by the bright white tones of the work.
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