A metaphor for the climate emergency, the sculpture entitled "La Grande Casse" ("The Great Break") makes visible the augmented reality of the effects of global warming on a glacier.
A metaphor for the climate emergency, the sculpture entitled "La Grande Casse" ("The Great Break") makes visible the augmented reality of the effects of global warming on a glacier. Much more than a natural phenomenon, "La Grande Casse" embodies the fall of a myth that hesitates between disappearance and appearance.
In collaboration with the ENS Paris-Saclay research and INRAE laboratories, "La Grande Casse" is a sculpture based on the glacier modeling (LIDAR technology), scaled down to 3m x 1.9m x 2m.
The project's origins lie in a keen observation of nature and, more broadly, in my relationship with the environment and the world. The project's title refers to the "Grande casse" glacier in the Vanoise massif, and also echoes Marcel Duchamp's work "Le Grand Verre", a work still subject to numerous analyses, interpretations and interrogations.
In the era of the Anthropocene, glaciers are threatened by global warming, and in turn threaten mankind, with blocks of ice breaking off in the valleys, melting permafrost leading to landslides and whole sections of mountains falling.
In perpetual evolution and movement, the sculpture bears witness to the fragile balance of ecosystems. It shows the public a landscape in the throes of change, with the disappearance of the myths and legends that accompany it.
