DARKNESS MATTERS

Costanza Julia Bani

Exposition

DARKNESS MATTERS (2024)

Costanza Julia Bani

open exposition

About this exposition

Darkness Matters displays historic lightscapes, specifically at night, from petroglyphs to James Webb Telescope images. The exposition constructs a sort of cabinet of curiosities and wants to take the visitor on a private journey to a virtual exhibition space to re-embrace the endeavors under and around the nocturnal vault, an underrepresented micro-story of our times. By researching archive material, image recordings and other available data Costanza Julia Bani creates speculative reconstructions of our nights and our relationship to the universe behind the sky we can see with our naked eye. Starting from fireflies in olive groves, alpine forests and the Milky Way, the exposition becomes a visual experience around darknesses and light pollution that has been transforming our nocturnal habitat since the introduction of artificial light.

Darkness Matters visar historiska ljuslandskap, speciellt på natten, från hällristningar till James Webb-teleskopbilder. Utställningen konstruerar ett slags kuriosakabinett och vill ta besökaren på en privat resa till en virtuell utställningsplats för att åter omfamna strävandena under och runt det nattliga himlavalvet, en underrepresenterad mikroberättelse om vår tid. Genom att utforska arkivmaterial, bildinspelningar och annan tillgänglig data skapar Costanza Julia Bani spekulativa rekonstruktioner av våra nätter och vårt förhållande till universum bortom den himmel vi kan se med blotta ögat. Med utgångspunkt i eldflugor i olivlundar, alpina skogar och Vintergatan blir utställningen en visuell upplevelse av mörker och ljusföroreningar som har förändrat vår nattliga livsmiljö sedan införandet av artificiellt ljus.

type	research exposition
keywords	light data, light pollution, restoring, historiography, reappropriation, archive, environment history, AI
date	06/11/2023
published	22/10/2024
last modified	22/10/2024
status	published
affiliation	Stockholm University of the Arts
copyright	Costanza Julia Bani
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2366107/2673453/20/20
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/vis.2366107
published in	VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	12. VIS Issue 12

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