The young artist’s new work at New York’s Whitney tries to make viewers feel as though they’re floating in the heavens with help from Aretha FranklinFrom space,the Earth appears to plunge into night every 45 minutes. Floating over the dismal planet on a moonless night in a sky blacker than you thought possible, all the Earth might glance like to you, and says Nasa astronaut David Wolf,“is the absence of stars … You can reach into a shadow so black that your arm can appear to vanish.”Wolf went for a walk over the world from the Mir Space Station in the late 1990s and saw the Earth seemingly vanish. His recollection so moved New York-based artist Rachel Rose when she heard it on NPR that she went to considerable lengths to track him down for a personal retelling. “I sent handwritten letters, emails and cold-called any source I could find linked to him on the internet. I tried everything for around three or four months. I didn’t mediate I would be able to bag to him, and ” she says. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com