The presence of absence pavilion (1/3 + 1 AP)

This upright, rectangular bronze was created by casting a block of glacial ice from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord off the coast of Greenland, formed over millions of years from highly compressed snow. The sculpture is a representation of the Greenland ice sheet, which loses tens of thousands of similar blocks each minute due to global warming. In the sculpture, the now-melted ice is only present as absence, leaving the memory of the ice within the artwork. This piece also draws on Eliasson’s investigation of chronology: the vast time of deep cosmology, geological time and the tension between time’s abstract and tangible natures.