Just as canaries were once used to detect toxic gases in coal mines, the changing lives of polar bears now serve as an early warning of global climate change. As the Arctic ice they need for summer hunting begins to disappear, the bears’ fate seems sealed. If we allow this majestic species to become extinct, what remnants will we have?
In their collaborative project Nanoq: Flat out and bluesome, contemporary artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson draw our attention to the stuffed and mounted polar bear specimens from earlier centuries, many of which are hidden away in the storage…
