Antarctic Thesaurus
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Pamen Periera, Spanish
Vistas isometricas del continente, Dibujos de humo impressos sobre tela, 2006 (detail)
Pamen Pereira's maps describe emotions. Drawn from her three days alone in a small hut on an Antarctic glacier, they map the internal and external landscapes she experienced: extremes of dark and light, highs and lows.
Depicting the continent from two perspectives simultaneously - from the east and from the west, further suggests there is more than one way of knowing Antarctica.
Antarctica, says this artist, is a place that lends itself to us knowing
relationship with the mysterious forces of Nature and the subtle energies connected with consciousness...
In relation to the Antarctic Continent the objective was to interpret the interior shape of a landscape that shows opposites simultaneously - void and plenitude, finite and infinite, freezing and boiling, visible and invisible, light and darkness. To reach its internal structure and to understand the relationship between the immanence and transcendence of the consciousness through matter and its divine resonance.
I have now verified that the core of the Earth beats loudly under the overwhelming white coat, that the frozen mountains and the ice floes of my sculptures and pictures exist, that the Moon also travels over those seas and that the glaciers are poets of light and air. Poetry in its essence. It's an ideal place that accompanies the ice burning in our inside, which some times purifies us and some times consumes us.
Pamen Periera, Buenos Aires, March 2008
First charted from ships, Antarctica's changing shape is now mapped by satellites.
Rhythms of global changes are read from ice cores drilled from Antarctic glaciers.
Antartcica's changing environment is also mapped by artists.
Philippe Boissonnet, Lorraine Beaulieuand Pamen Periera have each mapped Antarctica in ways that suggest no line exists between our selves and the natural world.
