The Edge of Time / Four Days Before Winter

UNSEEN Amsterdam

The Netherlands

September 2024

 

THIS IS NO FANTASY GALLERY

Fitzroy Melbourne

October 2024​​

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Gallery statement:

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The Edge of Time showcases Ellen Dahl’s ongoing attraction to places at the edge of the world, alongside her current research on glaciers and their inherent relationship to time. For this exhibition, she has brought together works from two specific sites; Nordenskiöld Glacier, in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Jostedalsbreen (Norway), the largest glacier in continental Europe. Seeking to capture the heightened sense of liminality and edge-ness often felt at these sites, Dahl’s work is conceptually underpinned by trepidation around the Anthropogenic condition and the consequent ambiguousness of overlapping human and geological time scales.

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In the series Field Notes from the Edge/Valley 1- 6 (2024), Dahl has collaborated with poet Hannah Jenkins – with whom she shares a common interest around geological imagination, human/more-than-human entanglement, the edge, melancholy, and time. In combining ekphrastic imagery of environments in crisis with an abstracted, desolate entity that seems to exist within the environmental topography depicted by Dahl – Jenkins’ poem further evokes ways of seeing and sensing that go beyond human ideas of scale and time.

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UNSEEN Amsterdam install photography by  Jitske Nap

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THIS IS NO FANTASY Gallery Install photography by Simon Strong​​

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