LARA REICHMANN & MAŠA KNAPIČ: Faros 78 [Supernova cycle]
light installation
Špica, Prule 10 // until 14 June
OPENING: Friday, 23 May, at 9:30 p.m.

Somewhere high above Siberia, 789 km above sea level to be precise, two satellites crashed in 2009 – crossing orbits of Kosmos 2251 and Iridium 33. The powerful impact instantly destroyed both crafts, and thousands of pieces of unmanoeuvrable space debris are still orbiting the Earth today, waiting to be flooded back into our atmosphere by gravitational forces. Faros 78, at its ground position, watches over the debris of the cosmic accident and tracks its movement along elliptical tracks. The orbiting of the remnants of the satellites, their alternating distancing and approaching, dictates the activation of light signals, which Faros 78 uses to mark their current location in the hope that the fragmented space bodies, or what is left of them, will one day find their way back home. /L. Reichmann & M. Knapič/

MAŠA KNAPIČ (1996) graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (ALOU). Her work includes site-specific installations, props, paintings, objects and other attempts to question the relationship between the work and the whole and the viewer as an eyewitness to decentralised narratives. LARA REICHMANN (1995) is an artist in the fields of video and 3D animation. Her work is often based on stories of forgotten, erased or indefinable places and characters that inhabit the peripheries of archived history. Currently, she is researching the work of Women Astronomical Computers, defunct satellites and the various possibilities of storytelling within gallery spaces.

Technical assistant: Jakob Grčman