[Installation view] Silver gelatin print, 24 x 24 cm, 2023
[Installation view] Silver gelatin print, 24 x 24 cm, 2023
[Installation view] Silver gelatin print, 24 x 24 cm, 2023
[Installation view] Silver gelatin print, 24 x 24 cm, 2023
Ultraplanets is a fictional astronomical atlas made from NASA’s public image archive.
Very few people have seen another planet, a black hole, or the Sun directly. What we know of them comes from images taken by probes and telescopes. Like any map, these images reduce reality, and over time we stop questioning them. The Mercator projection makes Greenland look as large as Africa, and it was still the standard world map for centuries.
The series takes these images apart and recombines them, sometimes with unrelated photographic fragments, to build planets that do not exist. The work moves from digital editing to the darkroom. Instead of standard chemicals, the prints are developed with plant-based developers made from coffee, wine, beetroot, and rooibos. The rooibos formula is my own.
An atlas presents itself as a record. This one is a record of invented places, produced with the same trust we give to real ones.
Very few people have seen another planet, a black hole, or the Sun directly. What we know of them comes from images taken by probes and telescopes. Like any map, these images reduce reality, and over time we stop questioning them. The Mercator projection makes Greenland look as large as Africa, and it was still the standard world map for centuries.
The series takes these images apart and recombines them, sometimes with unrelated photographic fragments, to build planets that do not exist. The work moves from digital editing to the darkroom. Instead of standard chemicals, the prints are developed with plant-based developers made from coffee, wine, beetroot, and rooibos. The rooibos formula is my own.
An atlas presents itself as a record. This one is a record of invented places, produced with the same trust we give to real ones.