Drava art biennale, galerija Koprivnica, Muzej likovnih umjetnosti, Osijek, 2023.
Concept
The climate on planet Earth has changed throughout history, but the current warming is occurring at a rate unseen in the last 10,000 years. The current warming trend is different because it is clearly the result of human activities since the mid-19th century, i.e., since the Industrial Revolution, and is happening at a rate unprecedented in many recent millennia. The impact is evident in scientific facts obtained through nature observation: oceans are warming, global temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius since the 19th century, ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, snow cover is decreasing, destructive tsunamis, floods, droughts, and coral reefs are dying out. It is predicted that the impact of climate change will increase in the future.
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Flood, Drava art biennale, 2023.
Rising sea levels will directly affect almost all coastal areas, including our rivers where intensification of river salinity issues is already noticeable.
Comprehensive climate changes affect all economic activities (agriculture, fisheries, energy, tourism, health...). Water scarcity, essential for life in the future, will cause major migrations, poverty, economic disruptions, and likely wars. Air temperature changes affect the thermal state of air masses and the movement of water in the atmosphere, soil, and plants, thereby affecting the distribution of rainfall in space and time. Climate change will affect changes in water temperatures, negatively impacting aquatic ecosystems and their diversity.
In Spain, serious hydrological stress directly caused by climate change is already evident. The reduction in water resources is associated with rising sea levels, and previous results show that the negative effects of climate change will mainly affect semi-arid areas with water scarcity and a fragile balance between water resources and demand. It is worth mentioning that in the fight against climate change, the EU now allocates one-quarter of its budget to adaptation to climate change, which amounts to more than 280 billion euros annually.
Raising general ecological awareness of this problem will undoubtedly accelerate further research and preventive measures because human attitudes towards nature, which have been based on human superiority over the environment for almost two centuries, have led to a series of local and global environmental problems culminating in an ecological crisis. The numerous and long-term consequences of the crisis require a responsible attitude of contemporary society towards nature.
author: Davor Mezak title: Withdrawal-flood
production: 2023 technique/media:
Installation: photograph 100 x 53.5 cm, HD video 7.59 min. Premiere, (skica.jpg)
The video and photograph were taken this year in the Karlovac County during floods caused by extreme rains triggered by climate change.
