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Screen printed floor piece, 120 m2, adaptable
Created together with Monique Martin in 2022
exhibited 2022-2025
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Screen printed at KKV Göteborg
Supported by SK Arts and Canada Council for the Arts

Vicissitude is a collaborative installation created together with Canadian artist Monique Martin. The work addresses the devastating effects of climate change, focusing on the elemental forces of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (including Ice). Through a combination of imagery, Vicissitude explores themes of environmental collapse—like drought, wildfires, storms, and pollution—and challenges viewers to reflect on the human role in these changes. 

Immersive Experience

Presented on the floor Vicissitude invites viewers to step directly onto the artwork, making them active participants in the piece. This immersive experience breaks down the traditional distance between viewer and artwork, encouraging a more intimate interaction with the themes of climate change. When you walk on the piece, you are not just observing the artwork—you are inside it, experiencing it as a participant.

By placing the work on the floor, we also challenge the conventional relationship to art. This decision encourages reflection and careful engagement. As you move on the piece, the act of walking on it becomes a metaphor for our interaction with the earth, prompting thoughts on how we, as individuals, are complicit in its destruction. The physicality of the piece invites a moment of contemplation, slowing down the viewer and encouraging them to pause and reflect.

The modular panels that make up Vicissitude were designed to be adaptable to different exhibition spaces.

Vicissitude was first exhibited in Gothenburg 2022 and thereafter on an exhibition tour in Canada. The art work has been exhibited at Vulkano in Gothenburg, Weyburn Art Council in Weyburn, Cathedral St John the Evangelist in Saskatoon, Snap Gallery in Edmonton, Estevan Art Gallery & Museum in Estevan, Chapel Gallery in North Battleford and Humboldt Culture in Humboldt. Vicissitude is now part of Estevan Art Gallery & Museum’s permanent collection.

Press & media coverage

SaskToday — Experience climate change through art with new exhibit

Discover Humboldt — Vicissitude: A beautiful visual essay on the nature of change

Radio-Canada — Luke Jerram, Monique Martin, art

The StarPhoenix — Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra season opener celebrates reinvented classics, artistic collaboration

Humboldt Community Report (January 2025)