Wim Tellier - Connecting Dreams
In February 2009, photographer Wim Tellier went with his four-person team to the South Pole to create the first art installation there. Six gigantic photos (each 800 m2) of sunbathing elders were assembled on the coldest place in the world. A reference to the global warming predicament.
PROTECT 7-7 expanded into a worldwide multi-layered photographic art project in which the continents, the elderly and children form the working basis of a gigantic carrousel of ideas. The seven continents stand for the earth, the elderly stand for their legacy, the 4,500 children stand for the future and dreams. The union of the six continents on the seventh, neutral continent was chosen in order to emphasise that all of us are living on the same planet.
The installation was exhibited on Antarctica near the Princess Elisabeth Research Station between 26 January and 6 February 2009. Wim Tellier photographed this installation from the air, at temperatures of -58°C. Six continents and millions of dreams were brought together on the seventh continent.
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