The video artwork PERMAFROST  ( looped video, 10 mins ) by Fernando José Pereira at The Bookshop -projectspace, shown evenings from 20-22 o´clock 14.03 – 20.03, 2012. A short film set in the Northern-most human settlement in the world: the Svalbard archipelago, Spitsbergen (only 800km to North Pole). The video focuses on the Russian town Barentsburg, situated at the latitude of 78º N. Fernando José Pereira investigates the remoteness of the extreme North, having travelled extensively in the North, and in 2009 reached one of the last frontiers: the Svalbard archipelago. Above here, only the sea ice from the North Pole. The video […]

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