Daniel Dorsa – To Skip a Sinking Stone
Opening reception:
Saturday, June 13
5–8PM
Deadbeat Club Galleries
The Reef
1933 S Broadway, Los Angeles
In anticipation of the release of Daniel Dorsa's new monograph, To Skip a Sinking Stone, Deadbeat Club is happy to present a selection of Dorsa's photographic prints from the series, as well as an exclusive peek into the book production process.
Daniel Dorsa first traveled to Greenland in 2023, when he was offered access to photograph the S.I.L.A. research group. Standing for the Significance of Ice-loss to Landscapes, and named after the Inuit concept Sila—denoting both the physical world as well as a spiritual understanding of living within it—the group studies glacial melt and its downstream effects. As Dorsa returned to Greenland over the years that followed, his work gradually evolved into a journal of a place caught between preservation and transformation, where ancient rhythms meet new realities.
Serving as both a pseudo-scientific documentation and a personal record, To Skip a Sinking Stone explores how Greenland, much like the ice sheet itself, embodies deep contradictions: life-giving and life-taking, ancient and ever-changing, a source of both scientific inquiry and spiritual resonance. Rather than attempting to resolve these tensions, the work embraces them. The images reflect the complexity of a land that defies containment or simplification. In Greenland, where extremes shape both land and life, joy continues to surface even in the presence of uncertainty. The title recognizes that climate change may feel like an unavoidable reality, yet people still reach for moments of light, connection, and meaning.
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