Der vierte Pol. The Fourth Pole by Julia Wirsching, Gabriel Hensche
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Publisher: Edition Taube, Berlin, 2019
Format: Softcover
Edition: 1st edition, edition of 500
Pages: 132
ISBN: 978-3-945900-43-7
Der vierte Pol. The Fourth Pole is an artist book by Julia Wirsching and Gabriel Hensche that reimagines geography as a poetic and political construct. Departing from the notion of Everest as the “Third Pole,” the artists define the Fourth Pole as the lowest continental point on earth—emerging from the receding waters of the Dead Sea. Declaring this contested terrain a Pole, they suspend national borders in favour of topographical, linguistic, and autobiographical coordinates. The book unfolds as an unfinished expedition: the text deliberately breaks off before arrival and is written in Arabic, German, English, and Hebrew, converging physically toward the centre of the book. A quiet, rigorous meditation on territory, absence, and the impossibility of arrival.
