2024
Unterm Eis
When the ice breaks
3D Polaroid, graphite, intaglio ink, mounted on a foam core plate
20 x 20 cm
Rising
3D Polaroid, graphite, intaglio ink, mounted on a foam core plate
20 x 20 cm
Moose see it first
3D Polaroid, acrylic spray, mounted on a foam core plate
20 x 20 cm
Geburt neuer Monde
Graphite, intaglio ink on paper and transparent paper,
140 x 70 cm
Offenbarung des Feuerkörpers in einer Elchkuh
Graphite, intaglio ink on paper and transparent paper,
140 x 70 cm
Offenbarung des Feuerkörpers in einem Elch
Graphite, intaglio ink on paper and transparent paper,
140 x 70 cm
Feuerelche
Graphite, intaglio ink on paper and transparent paper, branding,
100 x 140 cm
Awakening Fire Deity
The melting of the Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets – a dangerous consequence of global warming – sometimes leads to fascinating discoveries, such as fossils or long-extinct organisms. But what if the melting ice were to release an ancient mythological being? An ancient fire god, one of the Four who created humanity… forgotten, extinguished, and frozen in eternal ice.
What would happen if it suddenly regained its power? Viktoria Salma “documents” these events through drawings of animals transformed by the being, abstract depictions of the mystical artifact (the Fire Body), and Polaroid photographs capturing its awakening.
