Brenva

The Brenva Glacier, at the foot of Mont Blanc, has been rapidly retreating since the 1990s due to climate change. In this book Stefano Cerio intertwines photography and land-art, in order to allow us to focus our glaze on the progressive loss of the world's largest freshwater reserves: the blue inflatable placed by the artist marks the lost space, transforming absence into testimony and questioning our ability to remember.The book alternates conceptual visions, photographic diptychs, and burned negatives that evoke the mountain's wound and the end of glacial memory, but also the signs of a possible rebirth entrusted to lichens, small life forms emerging from the melting.Cerio’s aim goes far beyond showing us the effects of climate change: he delves into the very condition of visibility and permanence in an era when the idea of stability is being obliterated. Glaciers have served as historical records of millennia of atmospheric dynamics, deposits of particles and minimal climate variations: their progressive extinction is ultimately a foretaste of final dissolution and oblivion.