To the End of this World
Solin Yoon

The project started with a very simple desire to go to the opposite side of this world. And I went to Ushuaia, the city closest to Antarctica and the so-called ‘end of the world’. In summer of Ushuaia, the sun rises at 4 am and sets at 10 pm, however, In winter, the sun shines for just over five hours a day. While I’m here, I realise that the feeling I had was actually fatigue with the ‘world’ I got. And through the people I meet, I exchange perspectives starting with the concept of ‘end’.

I wanted to draw a horizon that can only be seen from one point in the installation. A horizon facing the end of the world. The horizon of the sea as the beginning of navigation. The horizon, as the basis of perspective, is expanded through the movement of the body to become space and place. And in the video I re-imagine the ‘end’ through the eyes of a navigator sailing the Beagle Channel in Ushuaia and the rhythm of the manual movement of the film strap, through the sense of latitude and longitude, past and future, and across the geopolitical conditions revealed in the journey.