Simon Faithfull’s work is on display at Galerie Polaris, Paris, through an exhibition titled “Does The World Exist (when I’m not there).” The exhibition is current until February 18, 2017.The exhibition is a presentation of the video trilogy Going Nowhere (1995 – 2016), created by the artist. “Going Nowhere 1” was an attempt to witness an absence and to check whether the world still existed during this absence. “Going Nowhere 2” presents a walk through a landscape at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea; A series of shots capture the figure travelling on his journey through this parallel universe – how is he able to walk 10 meters beneath the surface of the sea or where he is going is not clear, but he seems to have an objective or path that he is following. “Going Nowhere 1.5” presents a walk around the perimeter of an inter-tidal island as it slowly disappears under the rising waves. The third in a trilogy of works that now spans 20 years, the film again shows a figure that seems locked in a Sisyphean quest. Also available are two books, “Does The World Exist When I’m Not There?” and “An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity #4,” realized by the artist.The exhibition is on view at Galerie Polaris, 15 rue des Arquebusiers, 75003 Paris.For details, visit: http://galeriepolaris.fr/simon-faithfull-janvier-2017/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition.
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