Not your ordinary snow globe.

In their most recent series of photographs and objects, Martin and Munoz subvert the cheerful conventions of the snowglobe with dark ruminations. The typical snowglobe winter wonderlands are supplanted by desolate and sometimes sinister snowscapes. Forests of dead trees traversed by solitary figures laden with suitcases. The characters seem dressed for a more civilized sort of commute, their business attire ill suited for wading through deep snow and biting cold. It seems as if they were collectively caught off guard by some series of events and forced from their familiar habitat into a harsh and premature exile.

Galerie Academia :: Walter Martin & Paloma Munoz - The Frigid Zone (2004)