ICE LAND
From the ordinary to the extraordinary. A white monochrome polythene installation, embracing physical perception and inducing an everyday material to transcend itself.
Ice Land corner wall covered by freezer bags filled with the artist’s breath and hanging with static electricity (detail)
The artist, Marta Ferracin, surrounded by Ice Land (detail)
Video filming the artist’s breathing while filling up the freezer plastic bags for Ice Land (extract)
Site-specific installation
Ice Land (2013-2014) is a white monochrome and plastic installation embracing physical perception, interacting with the atmosphere of the architectural space inducing an everyday material to transcend itself.
Shifting in perception, the viewer is seduced and intrigued while interacting with space, playing with contrasts such as empty/full, light/heavy and silence/noise. The transparent artificial habitat invites one to immerse into a meditative state.
The entire wall is covered by freezer bags filled with the artist’s 1472 breaths and hung with static energy.
The pending clusters are made by the filled plastic bags, which are grouped and tied with polypropilene raffia string and hanging from the ceiling.
Ice Land is a kind of generative art generated by an autonomous repetitive system.
Growing like a living organism, it is reflecting subtle tones coming from the natural light of the surroundings.
It is inviting the viewer into a breathless and ephemeral experience, highlighting the transparency and the material charged with static electricity.
Artwork details
| Artwork | Ice Land (2013-2014) |
| Material | Mixed media, freezer bags, polypropilene raffia string, plastic dust covers, breath, static electricity, USB digital video, iPad |
| Dimensions | Variable |
| Exhibitions |
NAS Under Graduation - BFA
NAS gallery, National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW, AU 28th november - 07 december 2013 Young Artist Initiative Exhibition - 13 .M Contemporary, Woollahra, NSW, AU 31 January – 2 February 2014 |
Credits
Photos and video
Corey Rankin; courtesy of the visitors
Provision of the Space
National Art School; .M Contemporary Gallery
© Marta Ferracin 2025 Website by Natalia
Installation assistant Christopher Verheyden