Energy-in-Motion Galleries – Adam Sébire

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The Centre for Energy Ethics is thrilled to welcome back the winner to our 2021 Art of Energy Award, Adam Sébire.

AnthropoScene XII: Iceberg Care presents an iceberg “carer” at work in the Arctic (where artist Adam Sébire lives and works).  Known to Greenlandic Inuit as kassoq these are exquisitely coloured formations of translucent glacier ice, created under enormous pressure at the base of the Greenland ice sheet (Sermersuaq) before being transported by the flow of the Qarajaq glacier. They’re likely to be millennia-old. As the screens loop, bergy bits are repetitively mopped, swept and polished of fallen snow. Their carer’s Sisyphean endeavours are punctuated by moments of connection between him and the ice (of course, we can only really ‘know’ the 10% that floats above water…). Ilulissap eqqaa (a Kalaalisut term for the area surrounding an iluliaq or iceberg) is a dangerous place to be since the icebergs, eroded from below by warm water, can overturn without warning. Belying their monolithic appearance, they are in constant transformation – by wind, current, solar radiation, precipitation, and now, by anthropogenic climate change.

You can find out more about Adam’s work over on his website, or listen to his interview on our All About Energy podcast from 2021.