The Glacier Project
The Glacier Project is a visual exploration by Dutch artists Merel Klomp and Elmar Janse, co-founders of the creative studio Encrite.
Capturing the ephemeral beauty and urgent reality of Europe's glaciers. Serving as both a tribute to their magnificence and a reminder of their fragility.
The idea emerged in 2018, when the artists witnessed a vast slab of ice breaking loose from a glacier’s edge. A moment that became the catalyst for their ongoing exploration. Since then they have travelled across Europe, from France and Norway to Iceland, tracing the slow transformation of ice into water, and landscape into memory.
Through photography and moving image, The Glacier Project reframes these glacial processes through the lens of art and design, inviting viewers to pause, to wonder, and to feel. Their work examines how aesthetics can function as a language of awareness, translating the silent collapse of ice into a visual meditation on time, impermanence, and change.
