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 motif combines an image taken by the Mars rover Perseverance – a close-up of the surface of Mars – with a social media post showing the launch of the Starlink satellites. Elon Musk, who dreams of colonizing Mars, owns the Starlink satellite internet system, SpaceX and, since 2022, Twitter (now “X”). Through dependencies on infrastructure (both digital and material), one of the richest people in the world has the power to influence and subvert democratic processes, the supply of information and even wars. With Donald Trump’s second presidency and Musk’s advisory role, the issue takes on a frightening relevance and urgency.

“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