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The exhibition draws inspiration from flawed, shattered utopias and impossible desires – grand dreams of space conquest, colonisation of Mars, or new spaces for artistic creation. Infused with science fiction narratives, it offers a form of archaeology of the future and tells us that we still believe in the power of fiction over reality, in the potential for change, reversal, and take-off. It speaks of utopia’s failure but also of the persistence of attempts.
The character who inhabits it, both clown and astronaut, is bored alone in their spaceship – in orbit? After crashing on an unknown planet? After laying the first stone of a new foundation? They show us around their room and lose us in their thoughts, unfolding their imagination, memories and doubts. They blur the lines. Between glory and fiasco, brutalist architecture and children’s crafts, the clown-astronaut brings together different temporalities, universes and aesthetic references. In their upside-down logbook, the...More
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The exhibition draws inspiration from flawed, shattered utopias and impossible desires – grand dreams of space conquest, colonisation of Mars, or new spaces for artistic creation. Infused with science fiction narratives, it offers a form of archaeology of the future and tells us that we still believe in the power of fiction over reality, in the potential for change, reversal, and take-off. It speaks of utopia’s failure but also of the persistence of attempts.
The character who inhabits it, both clown and astronaut, is bored alone in their spaceship – in orbit? After crashing on an unknown planet? After laying the first stone of a new foundation? They show us around their room and lose us in their thoughts, unfolding their imagination, memories and doubts. They blur the lines. Between glory and fiasco, brutalist architecture and children’s crafts, the clown-astronaut brings together different temporalities, universes and aesthetic references. In their upside-down logbook, the...More
