The exhibition The Space Age in M encompasses 14 years (1999-2013) of Aleksandra Mir’s (°1967, Poland) work on the subject of outer space exploration. The pieces presented at M reflect on groundbreaking historical events that span half a millennium of the human quests for conquering space, such as the earliest experimental and fatal rocket launches, the success of the moon landing, or the discovery of the physical laws that made it all possible.
Mir establishes a link between science and religion that goes back to a statement by the world-famous, sixteenth-century Italian scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei, who declared that in his discoveries he had learned more from divine grace than from telescopes. Mir’s formal study of both NASA images and the iconography of the Catholic Church revealed a number of similarities.
For example, the heavens are represented in a similar way, astronaut helmets resemble saints’ halos and the expression of awe at a rocket launch comes close to the response of believers to religious rituals
Aleksandra Mir
As well as a series of collages entitled The Dream and the Promise (2009), the exhibition The Space Age comprises three of her films: First Woman on the Moon (1999), Gravity (2006) and The Seduction of Galileo Galilei (2011). A publication will accompany the exhibition.
Publication: Aleksandra Mir - The Space Age Poster Book, 2014: Berlin, Sternberg Press & M Leuven.
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