Julian Charriere: Towards No Earthly Pole

The glacial environments of Iceland, Greenland, Mont Blanc and Switzerland appear as one sublime landscape in this interrogation of the artist as explorer

French-Swiss artist and explorer Julian Charriere (born 1987) has long explored issues related to transformations in nature and the role humans play in such processes. In the cinematic work Towards No Earthly Pole, Charriere combines various ice landscapes into a sensual, poetic universe. The work relates to the current climate crisis through his engagement with the topography of glacial landscapes and the figure of the artist as investigator and explorer. To realize the film, the artist traveled with his team to some of the most inhospitable areas on earth.

In his photographs, videos and objects, Charriere upends the images and concepts we have of these regions, appealing to our capacity to marvel at the world.