DORMANCY
The video project was kindly supported by Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. and NEUSTART KULTUR.

Angelika J. Trojnarski
with Filip Jacobson
Athens 2021-2022, 05:09 min, HD

DORMANCY is an artistic documentation of the breathtaking wildfires around Athens and the Greek island of Euboea during summer of 2021, showing destroyed ancient pine forests in ankle-deep layers of white, gray, and black ashes. The burned areas extend to the horizon and beyond, allowing only just a fractional view of the whole. In the midst of this ecological devastation we stumble upon fresh sprouts, green shoots, and therefore glimmers of hope for a future to come.

DORMANCY connotes the local Greek wildfires with current global fires in Alaska, Greenland, and Siberia on record-breaking scales which are directly related to climate change.
Whenever wildfires occur too violently, too frequently, in the wrong place or at an unusual time, this is a sign of the ecosystem’s imbalance due to human intervention. 

In botany, dormancy refers to a delay in development under unfavorable conditions and includes seed or bud rest.