The New Yorker, May 1st 2006
LENGTH: 121 words

Simon Faithfull, Parker's Box
Forget Paris or New York – Antarctica’s the hottest destination among artsts. Its central to Pierre Huyghe’s film in the Whitney Biennial and to Faithfull’s hodgepodge of videos, drawings, and photographs made during a residency with the British Antarctic Survey.

Unlike Huuyghe’s slick rendering, Faithfull’s objects paint a scruffier picture, depicting the droning monotony of ice breaking under the ship’s hull, frisky seals in an abandoned whaling station, and a weather balloon hoisting an orange protective suit skyward. A series of shakily outlined computerized drawings function like Darwin’s dispatches from the Beagle; a particularly poignant example shows the plaque erected by Shackleton’s comrades on the spot where he died.