April 2024, FRIEZE No. 9 Cork Street, London
The exhibition is hosted in support of the environmental law charity ClientEarth, and sponsored by Tekla.
Weaving together photography, video and sculptural objects, lena_c_emery highlights the accelerated loss of mountain glaciers and the desperate conservation efforts currently employed to impede their decline. Under the continued influence of greenhouse-gas forced global warming, ice that took centuries to develop is vanishing in just a number of years. A fate experts predict for at least two-thirds of all glaciers by the end of this century. The Mountains Between Us surveys nature’s vulnerability and human intervention as a poignant metaphor, not only of preservation but of a broader dialogue on humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Whilst current conservation efforts may help to slow down the rate at which ice is melting, only decarbonisation will help safeguard at least some of our remaining glaciers in the long term, limiting sea level rise and other cascading consequences.