Space Junk.
An online conversation with the artist Sonia Leimer

The co-curator, Frida Carazzato and Sonia Leimer will talk about the artist’s book that has just been released to accompany the exhibition. Conceived as a kind of logbook for the entire project, the book is enriched with material collected before and during the lockdown last spring and the exhibition at Museion that opened last October. The publication also includes articles by Letizia Ragaglia and Silvia Eiblmayr. After the conversation, the new video Eden that was also produced for the exhibition at Museion, will be made available online.

As the title suggests, Space Junk focuses on space waste, i.e. the parts of satellites and space probes that fall accidentally to earth. Space junk, in fact, is the artist’s starting point for exploring our present world from a range of perspectives. It is a world shaped by ideas of modernity and progress that has now been forced to confront visions of an uncertain future, in a state of permanent crisis. The current global pandemic underlines the relevance of the issues highlighted by the artist even more firmly.