🌍 From South Pole to North Pole -

Native Antarcticians and Arctic Circle Research artist talks, follow by exhibition tour

🗓 Saturday July 19, 2pm: talks

Jia-Jen Lin, Taiwanese Artist, Arctic Circle research project

Marisa de las Nieves, The first woman born in Antarctica.

This exhibition talks creates a compelling dialogue “From South Pole to North Pole”, exploring the role of ECO ART on Governors Island and its resonance with global environmental concerns.

Works on exhibition:

🎥Jia-Jen Lin, Collapsing Landscape: No One Surface the Same as Any Other (Excerpt), a three-channel video, This video r major footage and sound of calving glaciers were recorded during the artist’s field research with The Arctic Circle expedition around the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. This work explores the notions of and interactions among fragments, trauma, reconstructions, natural disasters, collapsed landscapes, deformed structures, social violence, and memories of loss.

 📸 Marisa de las Nieves Delgado – Photographs documenting the life of the family of the first woman born in Antarctica in the 1970s

This exhibition offers personal and poetic reflections on the polar regions, capturing human longing for nature and connection. The snow-white landscapes evoke solitude, displacement, and resilience, while the blues of the sky and sea speak to a silent, waiting world. The three participating artists bring distinct and powerful perspectives on life and experience in Antarctica:

🎨 Mónica Sarmiento-Archer – Picto-Engravings of Antarctic Sky and Ocean, embossed and hand-painted (2024),🎥 Alberto Morales – Al Sur del Sur, a single-channel video recounting his 40-day journey across the White Continent