Vertigo
This essay reflects on the interweaving of human emotions, creativity, policy and environmental health in an age of extractivism. It does so through the work of Bolatta Silis-Høegh, an Inuk artist born in Qaqortoq, Greenland, to a local mother and a Latvian father. The text traverses the UK, Arctic Sweden and Greenland as well as the gardens of Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. It poses the question: what if the cultural sector were concerned with the dignified development of a human being through the arts, including their social and environmental dimensions, beyond all else?
‘Vertigo’ was commissioned for ‘Get Well Soon (Prologue)’, an exhibition curated by Lucy Lopez at Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland, and published in February 2024.
Published by Ormston House, Ireland, on 03.02.2024.