
NEW CURRENTS
Stories to Tell
Three emerging artists reveal hidden narratives in wrecked landscapes, quotidian scenarios and cities-as-theaters
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Carla Chan
BERLIN/HONG KONG
The Ashes of Snow, 2017, installation with custom kinetic snow system
and paper, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
Carla Chan’s installation The Ashes of Snow (2017), shown this summer at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, is a machine that generates simulated snowflakes indoors. White particles change colors as they descend from the ceiling-mounted contraption, graying as they fall and joining what resembles ashes on the floor…