Heavenly Pollen

“There was much discussion about the choice of the first cosmonaut: some said it would be a scientist from the Academy, others opted for an engineer; still others preferred a doctor or a biologist, or a man from the submarine fleet. I wanted it to be a test pilot.
Gagarin, The Path to the Cosmos, p. 69

This artistic project aims to confront the aesthetics of space constructions with the beauty of the living world confronted with weightlessness, revealed by science and art, through Haeckel’s plates, the work of the Blaschka glassmakers and photographs taken with an electronic microscope.
Microscopic in the cosmic immensity, like plankton in the depths of the sea, satellites are primary forms of the development of space exploration. Like micro-organisms at the beginning of an evolutionary chain, they contain the potential for the development of all higher forms of technological creation. Thus, the flight of satellites in weightlessness lets us imagine new horizons that science and technological engineering will open up.
The blackness of space, like that of the ocean trenches, appeals to man’s imagination and awakens his instinct to explore. The ancestral dream of flight is mixed with the hope of going beyond the biological limits of the human species, but also beyond the limits of its inventive creative thinking.