Archive - Endangered Waters

Archive – Endangered Waters

The installation is the representation of Iceland at the 50. Biennale di Venezia – 2003.

An interactive installation, the work comprises 52 photographs of waterfalls which Rúrí has taken on the banks of both muddy glacial torrents and clear mountain streams. The pictures are developed on transparent film, mounted between two sheets of glass and arranged in sliding slots installed inside a huge steel frame structure, literally forming an archive of sorts. All the photographs are precisely and scientifically labelled and when a photograph is drawn out one can hear the sound of that specific waterfall.

youtube video from a visitor at Höhenrausch.2—Bridges in the Sky, OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria