GROUND CONTROL / MAJOR TOM
2008 / 2009
Object
installation view, Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, 2008
installation view, Karin Gunther Gallery, Hambourg, DE, 2009
installation view, Mac's, Grand Hornu, BE, 2009
This ball wide of a human body was made of a plastic material so that a very thin mixture of helium and air to float it between floor and ceiling. This object that defies gravity, moving slowly in space according to physical laws of temperature and pressure vary depending on the time of day. The route that follows draws and climatic parameters and discusses the orbit of a planet or a spacecraft.
selection of exhibitions
2010
# in "The Moon is an Arrant",
The David Robert Foundation,
London, GB
2009
# in "Les ondes de Love",
Mac’s, Grand’Hornu, BE
# in "At Night I Lie",
Karine Guenther Gallery,
Hamburg, DE
2008
# in 'Political / Minimal'
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, DE
# in '(a)pesanteur, récits sans gravités'
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR
curator Beatrice Josse
# in 'One Second of silence'
Parker's Box Gallery
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A
# in 'Present Perfect'
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
Brussels, BE
# in 'Present Perfect'
Program Initiative for Art + Architecture
Berlin, DE
curators Fotini Lazaridou & Carson Chen