Broken Utopia, 2020
Bookcover and pages in pieces 65 x 65cm
HD video, color, with public domain images by Nasa Gallery, 17’

Thomas More’s classic Utopia (1516) imagines an ideal but impossible society. The gesture of disambiguating and shredding the books pages proposes an alternative to what the narrative institutes. The scientific images of the cosmos form an additional layer in the backdrop of this recalcitrant act, questioning the coloniality inherent in contemporary utopianisms of conquering outer space.

Broken Utopia, 2020
Bookcover and pages in pieces 65 x 65cm
HD video, color, with public domain images by Nasa Gallery, 17’

Thomas More’s classic Utopia (1516) imagines an ideal but impossible society. The gesture of disambiguating and shredding the books pages proposes an alternative to what the narrative institutes. The scientific images of the cosmos form an additional layer in the backdrop of this recalcitrant act, questioning the coloniality inherent in contemporary utopianisms of conquering outer space.