The glacial surfaces of the world extend to every conceivable horizon, 2025
Book pages, wooden frame, glass
42 X 32 X 2,5 cm

Around a decade ago, the artist’s practice often involved the physical dismantling of encyclopedias, history books, and lexicons. By obsessively tearing pages and extracting spines she sought to expose the manual labor embedded in intellectual authorship. This process became a fragmented, personal form of reading, an intimate re-interpretation of institutional knowledge. During that time, the artist consciously preserved the blank endpapers that tether a book’s body to its cover, as the liminal, transitional space so often ignored.

In The glacial surfaces of the world extend to every conceivable horizon these pages are repurposed to reflect on memory and trauma. Considering stories overlooked by official history books, the work challenges inherited narratives, embraces uncertainty, and invites us to imagine a future unbound from the authority of what has already been written.

The title, an altered phrase from Mark Fisher’s writings on depression and capitalism, evokes an icebound epoch, a remnant of a geological past. Yet amid today’s melting glaciers and climate change, it reads as a dislocated memory, an instance of paramnesia in which the past is misremembered as the present. This temporal dissonance highlights our uncertain relationship to history, time, and ecological reality.