Expo 2084: ice, this sweet memory
Vernissage: 28 Feb 2025
at Nouveau Théâtre de l’Atalante
10 Place Charles Dullin 75018 Paris
by Elena Galeeva
and Aliz Gyori
The exhibition Ice, this sweet memory playfully and artistically explores the theme of climate change. With the usage of the exciting and ever changing material ICE, artists Elena Galeeva and Aliz Gyori created an exhibition that is designed to last the time of a cast: about a day. An ephemeral experience, where each passing moment erases the images and shapes a little more, recalling our fragile inscription in time.
Ice, this sweet memory
Even before the exhibition opens, a welcome cocktail sets the tone: in each glass, an ice cube contains a message to be discovered before it melts. A first invitation to observe time at work, to see what was frozen disappear, to let what was hidden emerge.
The exhibition then opens with a series of photographs trapped in ice, frozen like fragments of memory captive to time. These images contain our lives, our stories, our past and our future. But collapse awaits: as the ice melts, the moment dissolves, and with it, the traces of an existence that escapes.
In the second part, a triptych explores the porosity between human and animal. It all begins with our first childhood drawings, these animal faces with naive and smiling features, innocent reflections of our own humanity. The persistence of the motif of Noah’s Ark, like a salutary antediluvian rescue, runs through the work in filigree. But this proximity to the animal also questions our relationship to meat and its consumption. What does it mean to save the animal while sacrificing it?
Through this look at our consumption patterns, the work questions the place we give to what surrounds us, and the way in which we shape, or destroy, what nourishes us. The whole thing is designed to last the time of a cast: about a day. An ephemeral experience, where each passing moment erases the images and shapes a little more, recalling our fragile inscription in time.
The 2084 project is a collaboration between three artistic partners: LadderArt Company from Hungary, La Transplanisphère from France and HYBADU from Poland. The project focuses on sustainability in the performing arts and raising environmental awareness among local artists and citizens. 2084 is co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, with the artistic participation of the Jeune théâtre national and support from the Fonds d’insertion pour Jeunes Comédiens de l’ESAD-PSPBB and ENSAD-Maison Louis Jouvet. It is hosted by the CDN des Tréteaux de France and the Nouveau Théâtre de l’Atalante.
