Italian artist Stefano Cagol has been invited to take part in the Arktisk Festival, held on 2 and 3 November in Copenhagen, dedicated to Arctic culture and current geopolitical and climatic issues, as part of which Cagol is exhibiting some videos he made last March in Ilulissat, Greenland. For the occasion, the Italian Institute of Culture in Copenhagen will host Stefano Cagol's solo exhibition 'We Are The Flood' from 1 to 17 November, in which the new body of video works created over the past year in the four corners of the planet will be shown for the first time. The opening of the exhibition will be attended by Inuuteq Storch, who this year as the first Greenlandic artist is representing Denmark at the Venice Biennale.
The symbolic image of Cagol's exhibition, the artist with a smoke grenade in his right hand and a drone remote control in his left, is meant to depict a humanity that plays between balance and devastating impact. The exhibition unfolds through about ten works, mainly videos presented in installations, projections and on screens, but also a sculpture and two photographic works. "The unstoppable transformations," explains the artist, "push us to shift our gaze and heart to the whole world, to the planet that hosts us. I have gone as far as the Arctic to dialogue with the icebergs, millenary ice, islands as imposing as mountains, but extremely fragile and ephemeral, one of the places on the planet under the greatest stress due to our irrepressible impact".
The food for thought triggered by the exhibited works are many, raised also by the different anthropic contexts touched, characterised by past cultures, minor or endangered, threatened by our voracity, starting from the ancient Egyptian, the Malaysian tribes, the Kyrgyz, nomadic as the human being of the origins was, and the Inuit people.
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