Climate Children - Climate Children / 2020 - 2022
by Henri Blommers
- Printed in France
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Technique: photography
Exhibition available in 2 formats for outdoor use and 1 format for indoor use.
"Due to global warming, sea levels will rise by one meter this century and up to five meters in the next. Rising sea levels are a fact. But it is impossible to know exactly when and how quickly the water will rise.
For most of us, the problem may seem abstract or distant. So, yes, our generation may be able to stay dry, but what will the consequences be for our children and their children? Will my daughter live on a floating house or will she have to move to the Swiss coast? She has no political power today, but she is the one who will suffer the consequences of the change, and so will her children.
We need to talk about this. We need to tackle the issue head on."
Refusing to limit himself to a simple evocation, and keen to make the effects of climate change and rising sea levels concrete, Henri Blommers introduced plants collected at the locations of his shots throughout the creative process (development, printing) (in particular plants whose growth is favored by climate change, such as blackberries and nettles). The film used in this work was boiled in seawater before use or soaked in salt water after development, and the images were sprayed with salt or seawater before being scanned.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
Henri Blommers
Henri Blommers lives and works in Amsterdam.
A 2010 graduate of the Photo Academy, he works with a wide variety of digital and analog cameras, incorporating assemblage and collage into his practice, among other things. He claims to have a committed body of work, addressing contemporary social and environmental themes such as the impact of plastics on the environment, rising sea levels, the loss of biodiversity and the influence of digital society on our lives in bright colors and marked contrasts.
