Twelve massive blocks of ice, harvested from icebergs floating in the ocean outside Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, will be installed on the Place de la République in Paris on the 29th of November, during the COP21 climate change conference. The installation, created by Icelandic-Danish artist Ólafur Elíasson, is called Ice Watch Paris and is meant to shed light on climate change.
“The ice we are going to put in Paris is a tenth of what melts in a second in the Greenland summer. It is a way to make the data real, to make the facts emotionally potent,” he told the Guardian.
Twelve massive blocks of ice, harvested from icebergs floating in the ocean outside Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, will be installed on the Place de la République in Paris on the 29th of November, during the COP21 climate change conference. The installation, created by Icelandic-Danish artist Ólafur Elíasson, is called Ice Watch Paris and is meant to shed light on climate change.
“The ice we are going to put in Paris is a tenth of what melts in a second in the Greenland summer. It is a way to make the data real, to make the facts emotionally potent,” he told the Guardian.
