Judith Neunhäuserer is an artist from Bruneck/Brunico who studied Sculpture as well as Religious and Cultural Studies in Munich and Istanbul. A combination that can also be experienced in her works of art, which address the boundaries along with the aesthetic and epistemic similarities of science and religion. With “Broken ice core (lipstick)” Neunhäuserer, who has a particular fascination for the myths and explorations of polar regions, refers to the drill cores of the cryosphere - the Earth’s ice sheets. These ice cores are obtained by drilling into an ice sheet or glacier and represent genuine climate archives whose analysis provides significant information about the climate of the past.
The sculpture, which is shaped like a lipstick and crafted from solid glass and galvanised steel, pays homage to this crucial and accurate method of recording climatic data as a monument to glacial melting and global warming.