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Following the description of Magellan's voyage in 1520, the archipelago in the extreme south of America, was named Tierra del fuego. The fires observed by the settlers on the surface of the water were those of the Yámanas, an indigenous people and seafaring nomads from this end of the world with a very hostile climate. Their lights have now completely disappeared with them, but glimmers of boats still persist in the middle of the fjords: the ferries which transport thousands of tourists each year from Punta Arenas to Cape Horn or from Ushuaia to a new El Dorado: the Antarctic.

Guillaume Aubry is an architect (co-founder of the Freaks agency), visual artist (Beaux-Arts de Paris) and doctor of art (Radian program). His thesis "Courser le soleil" focuses on the aesthetic experience of the sunset, the daily spectacle of the burning of the horizon. Today he continues his research by questioning our collective fascination with the end of the world.