2024

Unterm Eis

When the ice breaks

3D Polaroid, graphite, intaglio ink, mounted on a foam core plate
20 x 20 cm
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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
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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.