Glaciers are melting fast… According to recent studies the planet’s glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years. The melting has contributed to raising sea levels by about 2.7 centimeters since 1961. Researchers believe that most central and eastern Himalayan glaciers could virtually disappear in ten years. Climate headlines are shocking, but even more shocking is the world’s failure to meet the challenge.
La Maison du Danemark (located on Paris’ Champs Elysees) hosts an exhibition “Double Miroir,” —with work by Peter Funch and Klaus Thymann— linking glacier retreat to climate change via time-based comparative imagery. The exhibition provides two perspectives on how climate change is both an historical record and immediate crisis (until July 31, 2025).
We’ve been hearing about melting glaciers for awhile. Like a snooze alarm this exhibition is saying hey people wake up… glaciers are really melting and we’d better start doing something about it.
Double Mirror is a metaphor for the way greenhouse gases create a dual barrier, trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. Sunlight passes through the first layer, reaching the Earth’s surface, where it is absorbed and then re-emitted as heat. The second mirror formed by layers of gases reflects heat back, intensifying the warming effect.
“Double Miroir,” la Maison du Danemark, Paris, until July 31, 2025.