Materiel Matano, founded by Ezekiel Morgan,  Adriano Rosselli and Harry Glass, is a collective of interchanging contributors. 

XL was commissioned for The Long Now, Berlin, 2018, an event which runs non-stop for over 30 hours. Ice blocks were filled with antifreeze and slowly melted from the inside over the duration of the event until finally collapsing. The micro-sounds of the cracking and melting ice were amplified in the installation space. 

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Photography Camille Blake