Data Melt
SPACE Ilford
18 July 2026 - 20 Jan 2027
https://spacestudios.org.uk/events/liberty-quinn-data-melt/
Data Melt examines how satellite imagery and digital technologies shape our understanding of climate breakdown in remote polar regions. The works explore how ice sheets in retreat are captured from above, and how that visual information is translated, fragmented and reconstructed on its way to becoming an image.
In this new body of work, ice and data merge to reflect on how we look at remote landscapes, ones that for most of us are accessed through our screens. Light, time and the acceleration of environmental change become material, layered into works that hold past, present and future archives of ice.
Polar landscapes are disappearing slowly and out of sight, a form of slow violence caused by human activity. Satellites pass overhead translating frozen terrain into 0s and 1s, streams of data pieced together into images of ice in retreat. What we view is never a whole but a mosaic of multiple captures, they are stitched together into a seamless illusion that is already fractured at its foundation.
The exhibition transforms the gallery into an environment that investigates the intersection of art and environmental urgency. The works are configured spatially to reflect on distant polar landscapes at the forefront of climate breakdown, and how technological systems shape the way we witness their transformation.