Factitious Reservoirs

Simulated brines in centrifuge vials, pure silicon, videos, LED lights, electrical cords

Brine recipes of the moon Europa, the moon Enceladus, and the dwarf planet Ceres courtesy of Mark Fox-Powell (astrobiologist and planetary scientist at Open University, UK); in addition to the base recipes more speculative recipes were also developed. Video source material generated from a custom model/image data set—around the theme of alien oceans using—StyleGAN2. Developed as a site specific installation in dialogue with exhibition curator, Arkadiusz Półtorak.

Produced with the support of the Mondriaan Fonds.