Meteorite-synapse
Installation. Polystyrene foam, expanded polyurethane, cement, synthetic putty, acrylic paints and audio equipment.
4.50 x 3.30 x 3.25 m
14th Havana Biennial. Project “Behind the Wall”.
2022
For thousands of years, humanity has been fascinated by alien and remote phenomena, potentially catastrophic interplanetary events that occasionally arrive on the surface of the Earth as meteorites from the Solar System.
Meteorites are rocks stripped from the surfaces of planets and hurled into orbit by the impact of asteroids that eventually reach the earth. A tiny fraction of the projected rocks crosses our planet’s atmosphere, bringing us their material composition and the history of their journey; information that science explores as questions. What are they? Where do they come from? What do they bring?
“Meteorite-synapse” is a metaphor for these questions, posed as a projection of our responsibility in time, of the possible impact of our actions as contemporaries in the possible future.
What will be our legacy as individuals, as a society, in the inevitable future? How will we be perceived in millions of years? What will happen if we were there and could, in retrospect, access the consequences of our actions? Would we make the same decisions? Would we do what we do today?
Meteorite-synapse
Installation. Polystyrene foam, expanded polyurethane, cement, synthetic putty, acrylic paints and audio equipment.
4.50 x 3.30 x 3.25 m
14th Havana Biennial. Project “Behind the Wall”.
2022
For thousands of years, humanity has been fascinated by alien and remote phenomena, potentially catastrophic interplanetary events that occasionally arrive on the surface of the Earth as meteorites from the Solar System.
Meteorites are rocks stripped from the surfaces of planets and hurled into orbit by the impact of asteroids that eventually reach the earth. A tiny fraction of the projected rocks crosses our planet’s atmosphere, bringing us their material composition and the history of their journey; information that science explores as questions. What are they? Where do they come from? What do they bring?
“Meteorite-synapse” is a metaphor for these questions, posed as a projection of our responsibility in time, of the possible impact of our actions as contemporaries in the possible future.
What will be our legacy as individuals, as a society, in the inevitable future? How will we be perceived in millions of years? What will happen if we were there and could, in retrospect, access the consequences of our actions? Would we make the same decisions? Would we do what we do today?
