FORECAST
SHOSHANNAH WHITE + CHARLEY YOUNG
Free Will North Church Project Space
Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, Maine
August 2017
FORECAST brings together the work of two artists from across borders, Shoshannah White (Portland, Maine) and Charley Young (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Based on their experiences in both Svalbard, Norway and Prince William Sound, Alaska, the work is a parallel inquiry into transformation, uncertain landscapes and sacred spaces.
Ice, at times translucent, opaque and often almost invisible, is in a constant state of flux. In glacier form, it is melting, growing, compressing. From liquid to solid, it holds our planetary history in its transparent layers and informs the future based on the past. It carves into mountains and leaves moraines and new landscapes as it recedes. Collected as data, a series of recorded points becomes a line, a trajectory, a forecast. Through practically imperceptible changes, the contours of our Northern environments expose carved landscapes – making visible, the voids left by receding glaciers.
Materials used in this installation include those which block out weather and light, Tyvek and black-out cloth – both meant to protect us from the elements and record things we cannot see: the space between mountains and hidden information within transparent ice.
Thanks to
Kristin McKinley, Hugh French and the Tides Institute Museum of Art for their invitation to activate this space
Tonee Harbert, Luke Smith, Rosamunde Bordo, and John Leroux for their help and support with installation
Work in this exhibition was generously supported by Arts Nova Scotia
