Event description
In 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took a picture of Planet Earth from a distance of 6 billion kilometres, the farthest point from which our home planet has ever been photographed. This image, called the Pale Blue Dot, showed that Planet Earth, all its details, everything we hold dear, everything we can and cannot explain, can be reduced to a single pixel. Earth has become almost invisible in the galaxy. In a galaxy much larger and more incomprehensible than Earth. Dan Hermouet's exhibition takes its name from the photograph in question, but it conveys a different image of pale blue dots. These new images, which magnify the invisible worlds of our reality, are created by combining various analogue printing techniques. Dan's pale blue dots become a counterpoint to the photograph taken in 1990, revealing themselves as an enlarged composition of a single point chosen from the image, transformed into a constellation. The slow creative process and the interplay of raw materials allow certain characteristics of the blue dots to emerge, while at the same time hiding the broader aspects of the story in abstracted but recognisable details. Scratches, dust, traces of materials in these galaxies; how the universes merge and react together, existing as planets and stars. Rather than reducing one world to a single pixel, here the detail is magnified. The galleries of Užupis Art Incubator (Užupio g. 2A, Vilnius) will be open until 13 September.