Nomemory - Valéry Grancher since 1995

'Art in space'

Photo courtesy NASA / JPL /Cornell

Art in space:

Art is a way to deal with our world. Everyday our world border is getting farest reaching infinite through sciences such like astronomy and astrophysics. This process is also reaching our daily life and environment through space imagery brought by NASA, JPL and ESA during their missions through solar system.
This topic is bringing us to face another kind of space, temporality and an another kind of 'in situ' concept.

-"Found sculpture on Mars" 2005.01
"Found sculpture" is directly linked to Marcel Duchamp concept such like "ready made". A "found sculpture" may be an object directly linked to human skill or technology. What can we say and mean in another space and temporality ?
Specially when we can perceive this sculpture through the pthotography prism ?

-"Heart Time / Time Heat" 2001.09
'Art Ousiders' Maison Européenne de la Photographie collection, Paris, France.
In rhizome artbase, New Museum, New York, USA
"Science Fiction is worming one's way into daily life, "Heart Time / Time Heat" is offering a clock based on heart rhythm: no earth attraction, no earth travel around the sun, this clock is sending you in deep universe."
Jean Marc Avrilla 2001.

-"Longitude 38" 1999 (The Cartier fundation lost their net art collection when they hired a web agency to re-design their website !!! this piece has been lost !)
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain permanent collection. Paris. France
3 territories acquired legally on the moon closed to Cassendi crater are defined as no man land under surveillance with webcams.

-"Somewhere sometimes" 1997-2005.
" Somewhere sometimes" is an artwork made like a message sent to one of the Saturn moon called Titan. This artwork is put on the CD ROM to be flown to Titan onboard ESA'S Huygens space probe mission called Cassini. Cassini spacecraft mission left earth bound for Saturn on October 15 1997. It has arrived on January 14 2005.