…like Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Threads of a Spider’s Web…Activating the Planetarium’s unique staircase gallery through forty-two meters of interwoven threads and spheres that rise through the full height of the building, Cosmic Threads invites visitors to contemplate the inter(dis)connected mysteries of the universe with the multiplicity of living cosmovisions, questioning: what if the overview effect is not only at the edge of space?

Echoing the speculative similarities between the spider/web and the filaments of the ever-emerging cosmic web, the artwork’s intricate network—strewn with spheres made of glass and foil—reaches out like the Spiderweb Galaxy [MRC 1138-262], a galaxy cluster with an active galactic nucleus, surrounded by filaments and smaller galaxies, resembling social and solitary spiders on their webs.

These sculptures, hovering as drops of water, will be able to circle the planet using only the heat of the sun and infrared radiation emitted from the Earth’s surface in the Aerocene era—another era that brings back the dream of flying, and other possibilities to reach space without rockets and explosions.*

Follow the river of the wind free from fossil fuels and dare to decolonize space. Can we learn how to feel other orbits while floating at the bottom of an ocean of air and entangle ourselves with terrestrial, aerial and cosmic web(s) of life?**