Exhibition Tour 'Planetfall'

Please arrive 10 minutes early so we can find each other before the tour starts. Check the comments section below on the night for updates. Tour starts at 6pm.

Artist: Michael Benson
Curator: Paul Roth
See comment section for bios.

Join us for a tour of this stunning exhibition of images created by Michael Benson.

About the exhibition:
Since the early Protected content , a succession of spacecraft, launched and controlled remotely, have voyaged through the solar system, photographing and feeding back to Earth a steady stream of extraterrestrial imagery.

Using this raw picture data, sourced from space agency archives, American artist Michael Benson processes, reworks, and composites individual frames to produce highly detailed images of the planets and their orbiting moons. His photographs show these celestial bodies from unusual vantage points and render light and color with startling clarity.

Benson’s appropriation and reinvention of images taken by robotic spacecraft offers an astonishing alternative to society’s visual clichés of outer space, restoring a sense of wonder to scenes beyond the reach of mankind.

Look forward to seeing you there. Please check the comments section on the night for the meeting point. We'll wait just inside by the main reception desk until the tour starts.

Hope to see you there!

Lisa

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