By utilizing technology that captures the spectral range of light beyond human perception, phenomena that are invisible to the naked eye can be visualized, allowing us to experience our familiar environment as a world observed in a fundamentally different way.

“Cosmorama” is a visual work that captures landscapes in the same manner that astronomers scan the skies, inviting the audience on a journey through surreal scenes resembling distant planets in outer space, much like a science documentary film or a science fiction movie.

This work was recorded using a 4K near-infrared camera in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. In it, there are images of deserts, forests, and deserted observatories that appear almost like landscapes from another planet. Moreover, the camera perspective evokes the question of whose it is, as it observes the subjects as if moving through a weightless environment. While it undeniably depicts landscapes of Earth, it presents scenes that are viewed through the eyes of a machine, revealing what we cannot perceive with our own eyes. It also prompts us, for example, to imagine life forms that possess a vision different from our own. This, in turn, challenges our conventional perceptions and expressions, re-presenting concepts such as the unknown, the uncertain, and the strange in relation to our connection with the world. The soundtrack features not the sounds generated by sound waves propagating through the air, but rather data collected from radio telescopes converted into the human hearing range, as well as the vibrations of the very materials appearing in the visuals.

Produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
With the support of Neuflize OBC

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