On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut

On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut brings together new and established strands of Ellen Dahl's artistic practice and her ongoing creative collaboration with poet Hannah Jenkins. Working in response to two specific sites, Nordenskiöld Glacier in Svalbard and Jostedalsbreen in Norway, Dahl's expanded photographic practice—encompassing scale, materiality, still-motion and sound—traces the marks left by the slow, inexorable movements of ice as it carves and erases in equal measure. Photography, video, sound and poetry combine as instruments not of documentation, but of translation: ephemeral whispers accrete into lasting impressions, and immense geological time scales are condensed into the fleeting perception of the present.