Ice Watch
Olafur Elliasson, born in 1967, is a Danish- Icelandic sculptor and installation artist who focuses on the human experience involving elemental materials to comment upon the anthropogenic era. Ice Watch (2015) by Elliasson consists of 12 ice bergs that broke off from the Greenland ice sheet. The blocks are arranged in a circular formation comparable to numbers on a clock; they present the immediate and drastic effects of climate change and global warming. Elliasson presented this site-specific installation during the UN Climate Change Conference (2015) to engage and include the public within the conservation conversations. The melting blocks of ice become a chronometer and symbolise the passing of time in conjunction with the desperate depletion of time to act. The presentation within a public context is to render civic awareness of the global climate crisis.
