In 2017, Julian Charrière was invited aboard a Russian research ship, on which he sailed the Drake Passage between Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands. The title Towards No Earthly Pole is a reference to the explorations of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is a verse that English poet Alfred Tennyson wrote in tribute to John Franklin, who died in 1847 with his entire crew during their last polar expedition, which had set sail in 1845.
Hostile to living beings, the earth’s poles and glaciers are today considered fragile ecosystems that must be protected. Julian Charrière created a screening under the same title, surrounded by an installation, turning the whole exhibition space into an immersive experience (at the Masi de Lugano in 2019, then at the Argauer Kunsthaus in 2020). The very hypnotic film plunges us into nocturnal images bathed in the light emitted by drones, seamlessly passing from the North Pole to other mountain ranges.
Hostile to living beings, the earth’s poles and glaciers are today considered fragile ecosystems that must be protected. Julian Charrière created a screening under the same title, surrounded by an installation, turning the whole exhibition space into an immersive experience (at the Masi de Lugano in 2019, then at the Argauer Kunsthaus in 2020). The very hypnotic film plunges us into nocturnal images bathed in the light emitted by drones, seamlessly passing from the North Pole to other mountain ranges.
