Simon Faithfull regards the world as an object. He consciously explores
its borders, questions existing natural laws, trying to overcome them and
integrate them in his works. He has repeatedly sought out the extreme
conditions of this world to push himself and his art to the limits. While he
was on a two-month journey to Antarctica, he sent back digital sketches
everyday on his Palm Pilot, and shot a video work entitled ‘44' recording
his journey to this desolate region. But for Faithfull, the way is always the
goal - as in his video ‘0°00 Navigation'. In this work, Faithfull set
out equipped only with a compass to walk, climb, wade and swim his way across
Britain, keeping strictly to the Greenwich Meridian no matter what obstacles he
met, whether houses, fences or rivers. In his conceptual art, he critically
engages with all the media of the visual arts, questioning them and integrating
them in his own very individual way into his works.
Photography: Roland Horn
Courtesy Simon Faithfull,
Parker's Box NYC, Galerie Polaris, Paris
© Simon Faithfull
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