Hear it melt
Swissnex in San Francisco is pleased to host Heidi Quante’s premiere of Meditation on a Melting Glacier, an audio-video collaboration with Jeremiah Moore.
The premier source of water for San Francisco is the Tuolumne River, a River that originates high in the Sierra Nevada mountains and is diverted from over 160 miles away via a metal pipe to San Francisco. Every Spring, glacial and snow melt feed the Tuolumne River.
Lyell Glacier is a key source of the Tuolumne River. Tragically, due to climate change, Lyell Glacier is no longer a glacier because it has melted so much.
Globally, glaciers that feed rivers throughout the world are also in danger of disappearing as ever accelerating climate change is melting them as well as the mountain snowpacks that feed many rivers worldwide. The United Nations declared 2025 “The Year of the Glaciers” to highlight this global phenomena.
The vision of this artwork is for people in San Francisco to bear witness to a source of their drinking water that is steadily melting.
This exhibition is the first of a series of explorations of melting glaciers around the world. Upcoming exhibitions include melting glaciers in Switzerland.
*The exhibition is open to the public upon request.
If you would like to schedule a private showing or a group tour (student tours, interest groups, team visits, etc.), please contact Diego Riva
The official Opening Night will take place on April 24th, 7pm-9pm.
Attendance is by invitation from the artist only.
Artist
Heidi Quante – Creative Catalyst
Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on the interconnectedness among all Living Beings.
Quante received a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of California at Berkeley. Inspired by her science background, Quante has been using diverse mediums to translate scientific data into artworks globally, ranging from one-on-one interactive experiences to large-scale public participatory artworks. Her artworks focus on the interconnectedness of social and environmental issues.
Her works have been shown at ArtCenterLA, BAMPFA, Blackwood Gallery in Toronto, Kala Art, La Gaîté Lyrique, Miami Art Basel, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Southern Exposure, and YBCA, as well as throughout Paris during the 21st UN Climate Change Conference and in wild and wonderous outdoor spaces.
Quante regularly guest lectures at universities and diverse institutions on the power of art to shift culture(s), focusing on shifting cultures around climate change.
Her current focus WeAreWater, is an interdisciplinary artwork that weaves together behavioral science and the power of the sights and sounds of Water to reconnect urban homo sapiens to our primordial relationship to this life giving source.