ICE-SPACE

Ice and the city are closely related. The shattered ice – The Ice – touches The Space, the urban space. It is, at first glance, a gentle encounter. And yet, on closer inspection, the photograph is disturbing. The humans present, with their faces blurred for privacy reasons, are confused and expressionless. Running hither and thither like automatons, or like the white bears from the History Channel, they roam the cities of the world amid traffic lights – an invitation to stop, to proceed no further – and portents of doom. Of Max’s works clearly reveals: the chosen places are among those most affected by rising seas due to melting glaciers. The ground at our feet-a sheet of thin ice-is on the verge of collapse.