SEA ICE
Isle Hessner reflects on different weapon cultures in sculptural works
September 6, 2025—January 25, 2026
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The exhibition Sea Ice is a further development of Aallaaseqarneq (‘the act of carrying firearms’), which was shown at Nuuk Art Museum in 2023–24. In SEA ICE, ten works originally created for Aallaaseqarneq are presented alongside a site-specific installation made especially for this exhibition.
- I invite audiences to share a personal experience of weapon culture as materialised via “storis” — the sea ice or pack ice which, in my childhood, prevented open-water hunting, but at the same time invited hunters to bring down game directly on the ice floes. While the hunters crept up on the animals further out on the ice, we (children) played and leapt on the floes among the firearms. In the process, we acquired a relaxed and realistic view of the use of weapons; we were, quite literally, served the results directly at our feet out on the ice.