A solo exhibition of the 'Death Of A Mountain' photography series (2016-2020) by Norwegian photographer Christian Houge, exploring environmental challenges and examining our relation to Nature and environmental challenges we are facing, inviting new questions in the Anthropocene.
`Death of a Mountain` examines our relation to Nature and environmental challenges we are facing, inviting new questions in the Anthropocene. The series is also an homage to an ancient giant. As if tens of thousands of years culminated into an organism’s last breath of life. Scientists warn that the world’s glaciers will be gone within this century if we don’t reduce global warming dramatically. The covering of parts of the Rhone glacier in Switzerland with UV-resistant fabric to halt glacial melting represents Man’s feeble attempt to stop the inevitable in the near future. As with the installation of artist Christo’s “Shoreline” (1969), my exploration of this glacier helps me to re-contextualize a well-known natural setting. ‘Death of a Mountain’ invites the viewers to explore a connection to that which is being lost forever.
“Death of a Mountain” has previously been exhibited at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow (w/ climate summit COP26), as a solo exhibition Buer Gallery in Oslo and at Oslo Negative Photofestival (represented by Buer Gallery). This photo series was Awarded the Norway bi-annual Photography Award 2021, the Norwegian Governments Arts Grant, nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Sørlandets Kunstmuseum Art Collection.