Sandsculptures
Klagenfurt
Kunstraum Lakeside
My drink tastes like apocalypse
What if. What if the petro-elite of the United Arab Emirates were so absurdly rich that they flaunted their financial power not only by building artificial archipelagos off Dubai but also through the provenance of the ice cubes in their cocktails? What if there was a company that harvested blocks of glacier ice in Greenland to market it as the “most expensive ice in the world”? Ice that is over 100,000 years old and thus free of modern contaminants.
The company Arctic Ice does exist and is the starting point for Mara Novak’s photo series. She stages ice too, meticulously illuminating and photographing it. What’s more, she devotes her time to testing materials, making cocktail glasses out of ice, exposing them in the darkroom.