The Poetic Impossibility To Manage The Infinite

In 2012, Edgar Martins was granted unparalleled access to the European Space Agency and its partners.

Over the past two years he has travelled to 20 locations across Europe and South America to shoot in classified facilities such as test centres, robotics departments, launch sites, astronaut training centres and satellite assembly rooms.

Martins’ ground-breaking series documents a variety of ESA’s programmes such as microgravity, human spaceflight and lunar, Mars and Mercury explorations, whilst reflecting on the new politics of space exploration and the impact of its technological application on our consciousness. Supported by funding from Arts Council, England, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Fundacao EDP, Instituto Cultural de Macau, Tapestry and Kay Mounting. -