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DESCRIPTION
Archival pigmented print
8.5 x 12.5 in
2021
Poles Apart (No Longer)As the poles become more accessible, regions that once were worlds apart are now conflated by ongoing geopolitical and capitalist strategies. The ideologies inherited from an imperialist past intensify as the climate crisis unfolds. No longer remote, the polar regions reflect planetary cycles of greed, expansionism, and national interests. These landscapes juxtapose, invert, and combine fragments of my photographs taken in both poles. The images both take stock of histories of human domination on species and spaces, and foreground the enduring sovereignty and agency of ice, wind, earth, and water—forces that will resist and persist beyond our human interventions.
BIO
Jessica Houston’s multidisciplinary practice explores climate justice through concepts of deep time, collaboration with nature, and engagement with local communities. Her research-driven projects bring voices across disciplines into dialogue to reveal geographies of resistance in the polar regions. Her solo and group exhibitions include …no footprints, even (Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, 2025); Beyond Her Horizons (Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 2024); Territoires sous observation (Museo de Arte de Querétaro, 2023); Terra Nova (CREA Gallery, Venice, 2022); Ecologies: A Song For Our Planet (Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, 2021); and The Call of Things (Arktikum Museum, Finland, 2019). Her work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, National Geographic, and Parks Canada, and is in the collections of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), and the Canada Council Art Bank.
DESCRIPTION
Archival pigmented print
8.5 x 12.5 in
2021
Poles Apart (No Longer)As the poles become more accessible, regions that once were worlds apart are now conflated by ongoing geopolitical and capitalist strategies. The ideologies inherited from an imperialist past intensify as the climate crisis unfolds. No longer remote, the polar regions reflect planetary cycles of greed, expansionism, and national interests. These landscapes juxtapose, invert, and combine fragments of my photographs taken in both poles. The images both take stock of histories of human domination on species and spaces, and foreground the enduring sovereignty and agency of ice, wind, earth, and water—forces that will resist and persist beyond our human interventions.
BIO
Jessica Houston’s multidisciplinary practice explores climate justice through concepts of deep time, collaboration with nature, and engagement with local communities. Her research-driven projects bring voices across disciplines into dialogue to reveal geographies of resistance in the polar regions. Her solo and group exhibitions include …no footprints, even (Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, 2025); Beyond Her Horizons (Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 2024); Territoires sous observation (Museo de Arte de Querétaro, 2023); Terra Nova (CREA Gallery, Venice, 2022); Ecologies: A Song For Our Planet (Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, 2021); and The Call of Things (Arktikum Museum, Finland, 2019). Her work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, National Geographic, and Parks Canada, and is in the collections of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), and the Canada Council Art Bank.