La Biennale de Québec: What Shifts When Ice Splits

Ice is a charged word globally. For many Americans, it is the acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that harbinger of xenophobia, along with a cold indicator of weather changes, especially as an agent of climate change. The Arctic region loses ice, and other countries find themselves having more of it than they’ve had in decades. In Québec City, at the transition from winter to spring, it is an abundant near-neutral endearing factor—the slippery ice that coats streets, icicles are a...