North Pole / Paris (2019) explores the emotional and symbolic connections between two places separated by thousands of kilometres. Developed as an artistic, scientific, and ecological reflection, the work considers not only research and observation, but also the emotional dimensions of distance, presence, and human connection.
In 2019, cinematographer Jakob Stark was travelling aboard a research vessel in the Arctic, while I was living in Paris—a city that, despite its density, often felt unexpectedly intimate. Throughout the journey, we exchanged images between these two contrasting environments, creating an ongoing visual dialogue across geographical and climatic extremes.
As part of the project, moving images from Southern Europe were taken to the North Pole and projected directly onto the Arctic ice. The temporary screening transformed the frozen landscape into a meeting point where distant places, different climates, and personal experiences converged. Heat and cold, urban life and the polar wilderness, scientific exploration and artistic imagination became intertwined, proposing an alternative way of understanding connection across space. Published also in the magazin SCHLIFF, 2024