MASP Screens Video by Inuk Silis Hoegh on the Transformation of the Landscape in Greenland
In The Green Land, H酶egh makes a connection between the meaning of the name of the territory, 鈥済reen land鈥�, and the current scenario of accelerated glacial melting. The color green represents the contrast between the idea of a fertile land, rich in vegetation, and the changing polar landscape. The video, with its contemplative rhythm, presents different states of the four natural elements鈥撯�搘ater, fire, earth and air鈥撯�搈aterialized in different shades of this color, sometimes invading the icy scenery, sometimes integrating into the new landscape.
Curated by Teo Teotonio, Curatorial Assistant, MASP, the work documents the artist鈥檚 interventions in the landscape, which consist of inserting various elements in shades of green. By intervening in the territory, H酶egh highlights the impact of human activity on ongoing environmental change.
鈥淭he color green is used in the work as a potential for transformation, either through the recovery of fauna and flora or through their degradation. Green becomes ambiguous, symbolizing both the fertile and the toxic. By addressing climate change in Greenland, The Green Land not only addresses a local environmental issue, but also highlights the consequences of these changes on a global scale,鈥� says Teo Teotonio.
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In The Green Land, H酶egh makes a connection between the meaning of the name of the territory, 鈥済reen land鈥�, and the current scenario of accelerated glacial melting. The color green represents the contrast between the idea of a fertile land, rich in vegetation, and the changing polar landscape. The video, with its contemplative rhythm, presents different states of the four natural elements鈥撯�搘ater, fire, earth and air鈥撯�搈aterialized in different shades of this color, sometimes invading the icy scenery, sometimes integrating into the new landscape.
Curated by Teo Teotonio, Curatorial Assistant, MASP, the work documents the artist鈥檚 interventions in the landscape, which consist of inserting various elements in shades of green. By intervening in the territory, H酶egh highlights the impact of human activity on ongoing environmental change.
鈥淭he color green is used in the work as a potential for transformation, either through the recovery of fauna and flora or through their degradation. Green becomes ambiguous, symbolizing both the fertile and the toxic. By addressing climate change in Greenland, The Green Land not only addresses a local environmental issue, but also highlights the consequences of these changes on a global scale,鈥� says Teo Teotonio.
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