I AM MOUNTAIN, TO MEASURE IMPERMANENCE
ANNA BOHMAN GALLERY
16 JANUARY - 14 FEBRUARY 2016


I am mountain, to measure impermanence is an installation by Hanna Ljungh consisting of a film illustrating the measurements of Kebnekaise from a human perspective. Ljungh also presents a series of photographs and sculptures portraying the mountain and the surrounding glacier. The sculptures are a continuation of the artist's earlier work with geological strata where a human impact is clearly present. The exhibition also contains a sound piece illustrating statistic sequences.

Installed as a site-specific projection, the film I am mountain, to measure impermanence features the southern peak of Kebnekaise, where a team of scientists gather samples and measure the effects of the rapidly melting mountain glacier.
Since 1902, when the first measurement was made, the southern peak of Kebnekaise has been the highest point in Sweden. However, 113 years of research shows a clear tendency that the glacier is melting. Consisting of rocks, Kebnekaise's northern point will therefore, according to the statistics, soon be the highest peak in Sweden.

Utilizing sound as a medium, Hanna Ljungh persistently archives all amassed measurements of Kebnekaise to this day. Reduced to an extremely low frequency bass-sound and vibrations, the sound is measured by a large-scale seismograph, the instrument used to detect movements in the ground. In the soundscape, the body mass that Ljungh senses the mountain stands for echoes in the sound of her own body. Her voice is turned into the seismic curve that measures the light quakes emerging from inside the mountain while carrying detailed scientific information.

I am mountain, to measure impermanence

I am mountain, to measure impermanence

I am mountain-specimens

I am mountain-specimens

I am mountain-surface

I am mountain-surface

I am mountain-measurements

I am mountain-measurements

I am mountain-the waiting

I am mountain-the waiting

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