adrift is an audiovisual installation by media artist Sasha Kojjio and creative producer Alisa Davydova, driven by a generative algorithm that simulates the melting of glaciers. In this work, the artists visualize the fragility and inevitability of natural processes.

The project was inspired by the UN’s declaration of 2025 as the Year of Glaciers. Born and raised in the North, the artists personally understand how the movement of ice shapes social, cultural, domestic, and economic life. With climate change, the timing of ice drift is shifting, triggering a chain reaction of changes that disrupt long-established traditions.

The viewer’s experience is one of meditative contemplation — observing the glacier breaking apart from shifting perspectives. Each iteration generates new patterns of fragments, while the careful modulation of pace and flow creates a compelling narrative that reveals the subtle intricacy of glacial systems. Adrift opens a space for reflection on how human impact accelerates irreversible natural processes, exposing the fragility of nature, of the moment, and of life on this planet.

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