Endurance: Colony

The second scene of Endurance depicts a seemingly idylliccolony of penguins nestled within the frozen landscape. Their behaviour respondsto the changing environment within the artwork as well as to the movements ofthe unsuspecting viewer. The colony is overshadowed by the continuous and, at times,menacing advancement of a large ice shelf. At the viewer’s touch, the ice crumblesinto the surrounding sea, dramatised in slow motion to capture our human impacton the planet most viscerally.