Satellite Incantation:
Amid Tellurian and Celestial
Exhibitions
02.08.24-02.09.24
• Iusty Art Gallery, Chișinău, Moldova
The NOAA satellite has its origins in the context of the military technological development of the 1960s, along which meteorology studies were carried out for surveillance aims, with the aid of radio frequency devices. Atmospheric phenomena have since become dissected entities, monitored using technology that increasingly bypasses human comprehension.
The top-down gaze of the satellite, reduces human existence to a calculative, instrumental relationship with the surrounding world, altering the foundational relationships that have been ascribed to the sky.
The fallen NOAA satellite — burried in the ground. A confluence of Moldovan popular meteorology, and weather tales told in radio-decoded images.
Sculptural elements alluding to the funeral burial rite, are meant to recreate the rain invocation practice of Caloian, found in the Carpato-Danubiano-Pontic area, current region of Romania and Moldova. A clay doll is buried in the soil, usually in an open field, accompanied by children-sung chants and other materialized superstitions. The dismantled body of the satellite takes over the soil, clay and flora, as a means to enframe the traces of •human-sky• relationship into the current and imminent fabric of technological calculative thinking.
The top-down gaze of the satellite, reduces human existence to a calculative, instrumental relationship with the surrounding world, altering the foundational relationships that have been ascribed to the sky.
The fallen NOAA satellite — burried in the ground. A confluence of Moldovan popular meteorology, and weather tales told in radio-decoded images.
Sculptural elements alluding to the funeral burial rite, are meant to recreate the rain invocation practice of Caloian, found in the Carpato-Danubiano-Pontic area, current region of Romania and Moldova. A clay doll is buried in the soil, usually in an open field, accompanied by children-sung chants and other materialized superstitions. The dismantled body of the satellite takes over the soil, clay and flora, as a means to enframe the traces of •human-sky• relationship into the current and imminent fabric of technological calculative thinking.
