Jens Galschiøt, Danish, born 1954
Unbearable, 2015
Unbearable presents a 20-meter-long graph depicting the increase of carbon emissions from fossil fuel use from the year 0 to 2015. At the end of the graph lies a polar bear with the rising arrow pierced through most of its stomach. As carbon emissions intensify global warming, increasing emissions will lead to melting polar ice caps, eventually destroying the polar bear’s natural habitat, potentially killing off the whole species. As carbon emissions increase, the arrow will only grow taller, piercing the polar bear entirely and signifying their unfortunate end. Label by Sebastian Rios-Melean