Himali Singh Soin
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Stored in the Himalayan ice caps is more fresh water than anywhere on earth, save in the polar glaciers. Himali Singh Soin’s exhibition “The Third Pole” drew attention to this water source, building upon the artist’s research conducted in the Arctic and Antarctic Circles as the recipient of the 2019 Frieze Artist Award. The show opened with a group of photographs titled Inverted map, 2022. One of them is a digital montage of two photographs: one taken by the artist’s father during an expedition to the North Pole in the 1980s, and an image she recently took of Antarctica’s similarly dramatic