The Sizes of the Moon and the Sun Resemble Each Other from Time to Time

From July 20th to October 20th

 

Artist: Erica Bohm

This exhibition presents works from different series produced at various times in which the artist explores various concerns that hinge on astronomy and science, science fiction literature and cinema, and the history of space conquest, as well as the idea of time travel. The aim is to construct a new fiction, a new narrative built through the relationships that emerge among the diverse works and series.

The Galactica project aims to think about new ways of interaction with light and time. This search for mental landscapes and sci-fi scenarios is related to the investigation of the light emitted by different astronomical phenomena and the time it takes for such light to reach us. The photographs were taken inside the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facilities at the Houston, Texas base. This work was undertaken in the context of and thanks to the Mapping Exchange Residency, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. and the Nexar Project of Argentina.

Planet Stories explores the imaginary of science fiction novels and the representation of different scientific theories, such as the future possibility of travelling in time and space. The history of space conquest, the construction of the image of the astronaut as a hero of the 20th century, and the metaphor of the search for outer space as an escape from reality are some of the issues raised in this work. The pieces made in Fujifilm Instax instant format (Polaroid type) and their crossover with images collected from the Internet highlight the fictional representation of a space traveller: past, present and future create a simulation in different temporalities, stretching the boundaries of the real. Places dreamt of and barely explored or experienced by the common person but portrayed by different expeditions and probes of the most advanced technology of each era are the excuse to portray, above all, the journey that the images embark on between, to, or from us.

The Perfect Crystal is a long-term research project (2010-2025) that proposes the creation of crystals from a dissolution of different substances derived from salt in distilled water. The aim of this project is to make large crystals by simulating the geological processes that gave rise to their formation over millions of years, while at the same time presenting a work of fiction in which the crystals obtained appear as mysterious elements.

Moonlight is a research project that started in the summer of 2014, at the San Martín – Mobile residence in San Martín de los Andes, Argentina. During that time, I devoted myself to the observation and study of the stars and celestial bodies through a telescope. From these observations I took this series of photographs which were shot using different pinhole cameras that were specially built to capture the transit of the moon and the movement of the Earth during the course of a full moon night. The brightness of the sun reflected by the moon and the rotation of the Earth, and the movement of the moon are captured directly by the paper.

Galactic Series

2009-2012

Digital photograph on paper mounted on plexiglass

Variable sizes

 

Planet Stories series

2012-2013

Instax Fujifilm

8.5 x 10.8 cm.

 

The Perfect Crystal Series

2010-2025

Crystallisation of various chemical elements.

Variable sizes

 

Moonlight series

2014-2017

Pinhole photography

Single copy

18 x 25 cm