This grant is to attend the opening reception of my first exhibition presenting my new project “Tent City” at the Art Council of Mongolia. Project description – 25 images size 150cm x 200cm Tent City In the last 70 years, temperatures in Mongolia have climbed three times faster than the world’s average, and thereby surpassing the global threshold set by the Paris Agreement. Without sufficient grass to eat, animals lack the fodder to survive the world’s coldest winter, when temperatures plunge below minus 40 degrees centigrade. Nomadic herders, whose subsistence depends on their animals, are now forced to migrate to Ulaanbaatar’s overcrowded Ger districts, the areas of the capital where they are allowed to put up their yurts. Thousands of nomadic families arrive to the Ger District every year in search of a better life, but the conditions offered by Ger districts are far from welcoming. Finding a job, while living in such a place with no sanitation, running water or central heating, has become an everyday struggle. During the winter, the cheapest way to keep warm is burning coal, however this constitutes 80% of Ulaanbaatar’s winter emissions, generating some of the worst air pollution on earth. The scale and speed of nomadic life’s change is unprecedented and effectively guarantee that this ancient migratory culture will slowly come to an end. Tent City intends to represent this kind of human hive as a kaleidoscopic view of different personal stories going through this historical transition.
Date Taken: | 07.2021 |
Date Uploaded: | 11.2021 |
Photo Location: | ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
Camera: | Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED |
Copyright: | © Nathalie Montagu Daoust |