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Simon Norfolk @ Benrubi Gallery
Simon Norfolk – Stratographs
February 5 – March 21, 2015
Inaugural opening reception with the artist: Thursday, February 5 6 – 8 PM
In October 2014, Norfolk traveled to Kenya to record the dramatic decline of the Lewis Glacier, which has been receding for the past eighty years. Using old maps and modern GPS surveys, Norfolk charted the glacier’s previous boundaries, then set his camera for hour-long exposures and walked the former outline while carrying a petroleum torch. The resulting images enclose the diminished glacier in a fiery border, as if Norfolk is inscribing the epitaph of the glacier on the earth itself. Fire is juxtaposed against ice, yet the dominant images are of earth and air, which are all that will remain after “the poor, doomed glacier” has completely melted.
Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
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