Treida (2022)

interactive projection / digital / 350x700cm

Video: https://youtu.be/3FaB4ayAW8s (platform)

Since the year 2020 I began to harvest snow at my grandmother’s garden and saving it in my refrigerator. Treida is a work which analyses the value of the stored snow. To analyze its value a fictional commodity stock market was created, where snow is traded as a raw material and its value can be speculated on a supply-demand model. Work consists of two digital parts - a video which follows the user of internet platform, where snow is traded as a commodity and an interactive projection. In the video we can observe how the biggest influence on value of the stored snow make the effects of global warming, be it on local or global scale. , As the global warming melts snow and ice across the globe, or decreases snow-accelerations the value of the in-refrigerator-stored snow rises. Through becoming a rare material its value is transformed into an artwork - a rare, luxurious material, that needs certain conditions to stay preserved. The evaluation of snow, narratively presented in a video is abstractly and immersive displayed through interactive projection of a landscape, which can be explored similarly to virtual Google Earth street wiev movements. Explored landscape is a valley in Antarctica, found on the platform Google Earth, which is being reshaped by artificial glaciers, which growth is driven by rising value of my snow stored in refrigerator.