TWO DAYS AFTER THE ECLIPSE…

series of 3 textile prints (2024), semi-transparent, ultra-light hi-tech textile, film stills from “Passage“
available as 70x70cm or 140x140cm print
limited edition of 25

“Two days after the eclipse, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter was confirmed”

The textile print ‘Two days after the eclipse, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter was confirmed’ shows a film still from the short film ‘Passage’. A social media post in portrait format documents the launch of Starlink satellites, which line up like pearls on a string against the night sky. It contrasts with the hyper-realistic photo of the surface of Mars behind it, taken by NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance.
The title of the work links a solar eclipse with Musk’s takeover of Twitter, while the image reflects the different spheres of influence of his companies. Musk, who dreams of terraforming Mars, owns the Starlink satellite internet system, the space company SpaceX, the electric car manufacturer Tesla and, since 2022, the social network ‘X’ (formerly ‘Twitter’). Through his ownership of infrastructure, the world’s richest man currently has the power to influence the flow of information, global democratic processes, the course of wars and the colonisation of space. With Trump’s second US presidency in 2025, Musk also gained political power as an advisor.

“The first human footprint on the moon will most likely have disappeared only after a million years”

In a pixelated clip, a chicken runs through fresh tarmac – a humorous subversion of the human practice of sealing soil. The image in smartphone format merges with the ephemeral traces left on Mars by the Mars rover Perserverance and captured in a high-resolution photo before they are blown away by the wind. The work poses questions about authorship and temporal dimensions – it superimposes human and other-than-human traces on Earth, the Earth’s moon and Mars.

“They remain behind while other things are extracted”

A photo taken during the demonstrations in Lützerath (by Marco Molitor – mamofoto.de) shows a group of climate activists standing at the edge of the lignite mine. It merges almost seamlessly into a high-resolution photo of a Martian landscape taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover. Questions about capitalist exploitation and mining continue in space.

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The prints are film stills, taken from the essay short film “Passage” (2023), which deals with ownership and infrastructure on earth and beyond. It was realised in collaboration with composer and sound artist Benedikt Alphart – commissioned as part of the Steiermarkschau 2023, curated by Astrid Kury

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exhibitions / acquisition:

acquired by Kupferstichkabinett Collection, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, 2024

December 2024, Talking Screen, Adina Camhy. Exhibition, Screening, Talk, Concert, sixpackfilm, Künstlerhaus Wien