Life on Mars might not want to be found
Drawing upon the urban legends, ghost stories and extraordinary experiences linked to the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum site, the work builds a speculative cartography of encounters with other-than-humans.
The work is a cross-pollination of meanings between science and magic stretching between eras, extinction events and other-than-human archives.
Seems at home
(fragment)
Starting with the image of the six-fingered hand carving, touch is explored here as a gesture that activates portals of sensing and as a contaminant on a human and planetary scale. This work speculates about life forms evolving in human-free environments, and the practice of terraforming by the Earth stemming Martian life forms.
Life on Mars might not want to be found
(3d scan of the work in the exhibition space).
Exhibited as part of a group show
Such stuff as worlds are made on (Valletta, MT)
Centre left - video projection of Jenna Sutela's nimiia cétiï
At Such stuff as worlds are made on (Valletta, MT)