IL CANTO DEL GHIACCIO. DAY 1
Sunday 1 jun
15:00
Sebastião Salgado Ghiacciai
Saturday, May 31
hh: 15:00
Screening / Soundtrack
Il Canto del Ghiaccio documents the melting of the Làres glacier in the Adamello group with extraordinary images and sounds. The glacier’s melting is so rapid that it is visible to the naked eye. The documentary will be experienced through Bluetooth headphones: the audience can take headphones and immerse themselves in the exhibition.
Il Canto del Ghiaccio is a long-term project that, by telling the story of the Làres glacier’s melting, narrates the transformation of a world. The work can be seen as a form of meditation, or perhaps a process of mourning. Or a tribute to the beauty of what is no longer.
The installation reflects on the visibility of time and the impermanence of this ancient world: melting ice is snowfall from thousands of years ago — fossil water disappearing at dizzying speeds. And air from a distant past unintentionally dissolving into the present.