Mirror Darkness Site-specific installation: black gloss acrylic, steel, manipulated digital prints:
B68; Coalsack Nebulae; LDN 483; LDN 1768; LDN 1774; Lupus Nebula. Dimensions variable
Installation at Lumen Studio (The Crypt, St John on Bethnal Green), London.
Exhibition narrative (pdf)
Exhibition narrative (pdf)
‘Mirror Darkness’ is a site-specific
installation that parallels the strangely futuristic qualities of Lumen Crypt
Gallery – designed by Sir John Soane and built in the early nineteenth century
– with the architecture of space telescopes. Drawing on the darkness and
religious context of the crypt, images of dark nebulae are manipulated to
resemble strange, supernatural, cloud like forms – poised in configurations
around black mirrors that have been cut to designs based on the James Webb
Telescope.
A narrative accompaniment to the installation poses as the machinic voice of a telescope. The text is written by a deep learning algorithm trained on telescope technical papers and the medieval Christian mystical text, ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’.
A narrative accompaniment to the installation poses as the machinic voice of a telescope. The text is written by a deep learning algorithm trained on telescope technical papers and the medieval Christian mystical text, ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’.