Hidden Landscape VII 2016
Crumbling, ancient ice crunches. Tired from the fight against the warmth, the glaciers take flight, fleeing from human ignorance.
But there are also people who want to persuade them to stay, desperately asking for a (last) chance. Wrapping them in soft fleece, providing safety and peace beneath the insulating shield.
Rebelling against the powerlessness from the impending effects of global warming.
Ice for centuries. Wrapped in soft fleece. The original idea, frightening, but also touching me in a fascinating way.
An exciting symbiosis for a brief moment along the path that the glacier and fleece wander together.
The fabric snuggles up to the ice, flows with it – in the photography a surreal harmony which bonds me.
For the twinkling of an eye, the ice is protected. But the fabric cannot resist the tugging glacier, cannot stop the melting ice.
Deep crevasses, like open wounds.
The end of a joint journey.
Hidden Landscape VI 2016
Crumbling, ancient ice crunches. Tired from the fight against the warmth, the glaciers take flight, fleeing from human ignorance.
But there are also people who want to persuade them to stay, desperately asking for a (last) chance. Wrapping them in soft fleece, providing safety and peace beneath the insulating shield.
Rebelling against the powerlessness from the impending effects of global warming.
Ice for centuries. Wrapped in soft fleece. The original idea, frightening, but also touching me in a fascinating way.
An exciting symbiosis for a brief moment along the path that the glacier and fleece wander together.
The fabric snuggles up to the ice, flows with it – in the photography a surreal harmony which bonds me.
For the twinkling of an eye, the ice is protected. But the fabric cannot resist the tugging glacier, cannot stop the melting ice.
Deep crevasses, like open wounds.
The end of a joint journey.
Hidden Landscape VIII 2016
Crumbling, ancient ice crunches. Tired from the fight against the warmth, the glaciers take flight, fleeing from human ignorance.
But there are also people who want to persuade them to stay, desperately asking for a (last) chance. Wrapping them in soft fleece, providing safety and peace beneath the insulating shield.
Rebelling against the powerlessness from the impending effects of global warming.
Ice for centuries. Wrapped in soft fleece. The original idea, frightening, but also touching me in a fascinating way.
An exciting symbiosis for a brief moment along the path that the glacier and fleece wander together.
The fabric snuggles up to the ice, flows with it – in the photography a surreal harmony which bonds me.
For the twinkling of an eye, the ice is protected. But the fabric cannot resist the tugging glacier, cannot stop the melting ice.
Deep crevasses, like open wounds.
The end of a joint journey.
Note: The text above was written by the Artist. No modification was made by COCA.
Stefan Schlumpf
Switzerland
Stefan Schlumpf, lives and works in Chur and Zurich.
After studying mechanical engineering, he became a freelance photographer in 2010 and began working for advertising clients and agencies, realizing large campaigns for clients in Switzerland and abroad. From 2015 onwards, he devoted himself increasingly to his artistic activities and continued to develop his art, which he exhibited in galleries at home and abroad.
2018-2019 studied at the UAL in London where he graduated with a Master in Fine Art in contemporary photography.
A central theme of the artist’s work, which focuses on the capitalocene / anthropocene, is the exhaustion of the earth’s resources for industrial and economic purposes. His works remind us of the appropriation of nature and the effects of this by man.