"End of the World" is part of an ongoing project which explores the impacts of climate change in Antarctica.

I see climate change in a similar way to an illness that takes hold of your body. It starts silently, unnoticed. By the time it's deeply visible the entire ecosystem is in a cytokine storm almost impossible to control. Perhaps it starts underground after years and years of droughts draining the life out of the soil much like in Australia. Or perhaps the changing winds and warmer currents rot away the core of the glaciers. On February 6, 2020, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica. Thermometers at the Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula reached 18.3°C (64.9°F) The warm weather caused widespread melting on nearby glaciers. I imagine all the tiny snowflakes that had fallen over many lifetimes to build this masterpiece and all the life that depends on it. With the loss of sea ice, we face mass extinctions of wildlife and sea-level rise, which will ripple all across the globe.

Film by Michaela Skovranova

Music composition by Troels Thomasen

End of the World | Antarctica exhibition launched at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS gallery in Nipaluna, Lutruwita | Hobart, Tasmania in February 2022.

The exhibition was co-organised and supported by the Embassy of France in Australia and the AFRAN association.