Museum Cerny. contemporary circumpolar art
ObjectSedna Caught in Jellyfish/ Sedna Head in Wire Frame (Sculpture )
“When I was young the jellyfish were only the size of my thumbnail, today they are bigger than my hand. The water [Beaufort Sea] has gotten so much warmer just in my lifetime.”
Accession
2015.12
Object Type
Sculpture
Description
Sedna Caught in Jellyfish/ Sedna Head in Wire Frame
Production Year
2014
Production Location
Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada
Materials
Steatite, barbed wire, eye material
Dimensions
Jellyfish: 30 x 45 x 45, Sedna: 19 x 9 x 9 cm
Provenance
Images Art Gallery Inc.
Artist
Exhibitions
- Linked: When Contemporary Art Creates Awareness About Climate Change (Musee oceanographique, Monaco), 2015
- Linked: When Contemporary Art Creates Awareness About Climate Change (Black Box/ White Space, Neuchatel, Switzerland), 2016
- When art mirrors science (Museum Cerny inuit Collection), 2018
- When art mirrors science (Polar2018, Davos, Switzerland), 2018
- Permanent Exhibition (Museum Cerny Inuit Collection, Bern, Switzerland), 2018
- ᓂᐲᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᙵᖅᑐᑦ. Stimmen aus der Arktis (Museum Cerny), 2020
- ᓂᐲᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᙵᖅᑐᑦ. Stimmen aus der Arktis (Liechtensteinisches LandesMuseum, Vaduz), 2021
- ᓂᐲᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᙵᖅᑐᑦ. Stimmen aus der Arktis (Winckelmann-Museum, Stendal, Germany), 2022
- Röster Från Arktis (Kiruna, Sweden), 2022
- Sedna: Mythos und Wandel in der Arktis (NONAM), 2023
- Sedna (Saanen), 2023
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