Malmö Konstmuseum

Catrin Andersson´s point of departure is often scientific research and natural history, and she works in the intersection between the scientific and the subjective. Ancient Blue takes its title from the oldest ice core ever discovered- an area in Antarctica with ice that is over 2.7 million years old. This ice is called "Blue ice" and preserves particles from meteorite strikes as well as carbondioxide. This allows for researchers to see environmental changes over a long time.

The installation Decade (Decay) is comprised of ten reports from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute on the ice in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, showing how the ice mass has changed over a period of ten years. In the installation, Andersson has submerged prints of the reports in water. More ice equals more ink on the paper, and over time the inc dissolves from the paper and colours the water. The different hues that provide us with a visual diagram of the changes in the ice over time. In a direct and thoughtprovoking way, the work reflects how climate changes impact the environment.

Andersson´s art balances between history and science, the present and the future. She often returns to water in different forms: It is both elusive and eternal, it exists as solid, liquid, and gas, and it is something to wich all life relates.

Exhibition text, Malmö museum.

Decade (decay), 2015

Ancient Blue, 2019 and Decade (decay), 2015

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