Opening & Panel Discussion "That Melted Snowman"

Opening & panel: Huzaifah Haaris and Iz Alexis on photography, sculpture, and what a melting snowman leaves behind. Sat Nov 21.About this Event

Let us begin with land art, reflecting on the transience of temporary sculpture and its fated pledge to collaborate with nature; here, the sculpture surrenders itself to the whims of the weather — yet at this very moment, the intervention of photography bestows upon it a different, more enduring, statue-like vow. Here, sculpture and photography mutually constitute one another; even if everything is subsequently razed to the ground, the presence is entrusted to the life of nature, whilst the absence following its disappearance becomes a real intertextuality of the ‘moment of presence’ captured by the photographic lens—a literary reference and a resonance between different histories.

From another perspective, photography itself has gradually developed its own sculptural vision—or, one might say, the practice of illusion—thereby awakening the ontolo