‘we are opposite like that’ Edition
Himali Singh Soin
‘we are opposite like that’ is a series of five unique prints of interconnected fictional mythologies inspired by artist Himali Singh Soin's journeys to both polar circles: the Antarctic and the Arctic, in 2017. It fuses a variety of concerns: the ways we know what we do and the skewed hierarchy between reason and spirit, (post-)colonial attitudes and a looming climate crises. It also imagines the polar landscapes as projecting screens for alternate, otherworldly or non-linear futures. This archival set of editions is extracted from the historical component of the moving image work, in which ice forms a ghostly presence overlaying early observations and records of geological phenomena.
Himali Singh Soin, 'Aurora Illustrations'. Video still, 'we are opposite like that' (2019), Giclée, Hahnemühle Bamboo.
Himali Singh Soin, 'The Last Human Family'. Video still, .we are opposite like that. (2019), Giclée, Hahnemühle Bamboo.
Himali Singh Soin, 'Erratic Blocks'. Video still, 'we are opposite like that' (2019), Giclée, Hahnemühle Bamboo.
Himali Singh Soin, 'A Frozen Thames'. Video still, 'we are opposite like that' (2019), Giclée, Hahnemühle Bamboo.
Himali Singh Soin, 'The Lure'. Video still, 'we are opposite like that' (2019), Giclée, Hahnemühle Bamboo.