Lichtlose Luft: Staub und Verschwinden Zeichnen /Lightless Air: drawing dust and disappearance

This publication presents the beginning of a new project by British artist Johanna Love, who is currently working closely with scientists at The Natural History Museum, London and The Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF) at UCL, London. Through a combination of photography and drawing, the project seeks to examine problems of human perception in relation to modern technology. It questions the scientific image as one that remains detached and outside of our experience, sitting at the precipice of our perceptual understanding, and making visible matter that is beyond human vision. The publication brings together the first body of work made by Johanna Love working with scientists, an essay by Curator Magdalena Wisniowska, GiG Gallery, Munich, and writings by two scientists, Dr Alex Ball and Dr Peter Grindrod, who discuss their roles and experiences of imagery obtained from two very opposing distances – gathering images from space, and from the microscope.

48 page publication