Created by artists born in the North, Sasha Kojjio and Alisa Davydova, adrift reflects the fragile reality of our changing planet. Using a custom algorithm, each pixel becomes a drifting particle, cracking and dissolving as glaciers vanish fragment by fragment.

More than a study of melting ice, adrift confronts the irreversible passage of time — the fragility of life and everything we desperately try to hold onto. The soundtrack, built around Philip Glass’s Two Pages, hypnotizes with repetition, dissolving the viewer’s sense of time until all that remains is silent witnessing.

Glacier melt is not an abstract disaster — it is a direct consequence of how we live. Rising seas, shifting climate cycles, thawing permafrost releasing ancient viruses: each choice we make shapes the climate future inherited by coming generations.

adrift is exhibited on a monumental 10.5×3.5m LED screen as part of the exhibition Digital Hopes at the International Ecological Biennale, from May 17 to August 10, 2025.

// CREDITS

Year: 2025

Location: TSEH*, Russia

Artist: Sasha Kojjio

Producer: Alisa Davydova

Curator: Triumph Gallery

Technical support: Dreamlaser