Project Pressure is a charity with a mission to visualise the climate crisis using art as a positive touch-point to inspire action and change to achieve real solutions. Since 2008, it has been commissioning world-renowned artists to conduct expeditions around the world, working alongside scientists to ensure accuracy. These projects will be presented in the MELTDOWN exhibition at the Jakopič Gallery as a result of a first-time collaboration between Project Pressure and the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.

The selected artworks relate to vanishing glaciers, and demonstrate the impact of climate change through various media. Glacier mass loss can be directly attributed to global heating and is therefore a key indicator of human induced climate change.

The exhibition leads the viewer on a journey in three chapters. The first section, The Importance of Glaciers, provides an introduction to the subject. In the second section, Current Issues, we consider various urgent subjects including the fact that more than a billion people depend on water runoff from the Himalayan mountains for irrigation, hydropower and drinking water. Instead the final section, Meltdown Consequences, looks at the well-known facts, but also surprises viewers by visualizing those consequences of climate change, which go well beyond sea level rise.

MELTDOWN will inspire, and will also activate the visitor. It is time to move beyond awareness: the mission of Project Pressure is to incite real behavioural change.