While extreme weather phenomena increasing, becoming evermore spectacular, and terrifying, a major obstacle to bringing collective answers to those events is that they become graspable only once they reach a high destructive power and cause suffering.
It remains quite abstract to embrace and engage with the deterioration of the environment as a whole as it is made of a complex network of intertwined agents, factors and moments which, individually, are often not impressive. The dramatic changes lay in a chaining of infinitesimal variations.

With his research, Pierre Coric makes known data ever slightly more graspable. The sum of all precipitation since recorded times (1959) in the city of Marrakesh. The city’s collective water mountain floating above her streets and fluctuating through some of these very same variations. By giving this data a shape, a physicality and a weight, it becomes an object that we can look at, hold in our hands and around which we can stand to start a collective reflection. The size and material chosen for this piece aim at making it a support to start collecting the result of this reflection, other data, still scattered and uncollected.

« Each of us has a mountain weighing above their head and a pit laying under their feetAs a finite amount of particles, we spend our lives right in between, depending on both, connecting them upwards and downwards. It is part of us, although we sometimes use the word “resource”,It travels,It goes from one body to another,From clouds and mountain tops, it spins, turns and sinks into the ground, As if it was making the grass happy to grow. »

As part of a residency programme in collaboration with DEPARTEMENT CULTUUR, JEUGD EN MEDIA - Flanders State of Art.