HELLO WORLD
Hello World, opening 20 June 2020
online exhibition with Vanessa Lorenzo
Hello World is an online exhibition organized by TransCultural Exchange that connects hundreds of artists and arts and cultural venues from over 70 countries, as a way to demonstrate care and concern during this time of pandemic. Alongside artists from all around the world, former ail artist-in-resident, Vanessa Lorenzo, exhibited her work Always Calling Home.
Vanessa Lorenzo, participated in the artist-in-labs South African-Swiss Residency Exchange in 2018. The work presented in Hello World, extends from her research and collaboration with the team at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town and Sutherland.
Always Calling Home presents a series of sonifications produced from the photometric data of Near Earth Asteroids. These celestial bodies, wandering across the Universe, pass very close to our planet and have contributed to mass-extinction events.