Tomás Saraceno, Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider’s Web, 2009. Installation view, Venice Biennale, 2009.
Imprinting
the organic onto the built environment, Tomás Saraceno worked with
arachnologists and astrophysicists for several years to make Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider’s Web,
the awe-inducing room-size installation first presented at the 2009
Venice Biennale. His inquiry into the correlating geometric structures
of spiderwebs and the universe, interweaving ideas of scale and
habitation, will evolve at Bonniers, where Saraceno installs a new
iteration of the work—a complex, crowd-engulfing network of black
elastic cords that simultaneously represents the impossibly minute and
the incomprehensibly expansive. Accompanied by a catalogue, the
exhibition will incorporate background materials such as drawings,
photographs, texts, and films. |
