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The piece was influenced by his 2019 investigations of the icy landscapes of Greenland for his latest film Towards No Earthly Pole and his 2016 expedition to the nuclear testing grounds of the Marshall Islands for his work on the Pacific Fiction series. Empire, sunk into the concrete floor of the viewing room, confronts issues that pose a menace to humanity, threatening the extermination of civilizations.

In Empire, coconuts that Charrière collected in the Marshall Islands are individually encased in lead. This material coating smothers, suppresses, signifying a colonial imposition, while …