From October 10 until December 28 Art Museum Zuzeum will present the exhibition Spaceship Earth, featuring more than 50 graphic artworks from the Zuzāns Collection. The exhibition invites to reflect on ways of being in the world – a world that is adapted, transformed, violated and lived.
The exhibition Spaceship Earth begins with a meeting between two kindred artifacts from 1977 – Uldis Brauns’ documentary Journey to Earth, with a poster created by artist Ilmārs Blumbergs, and NASA’s space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which continue their journey through the Solar System to this day.
Uldis Braun’s film, composed of newsreel footage from seventy-two countries, invites viewers to see our planet as a spaceship – one that each of us is responsible for improving and protecting. Meanwhile, the Voyager probes, carrying eclectic playlists of the sounds of our planet, serve as time capsules from the latter half of the 20th century, with an expected lifespan of at least one billion years.
Continuing this interplay, Spaceship Earth offers a reflection on human relationships with the environment. The exhibition includes works by Māris Ārgalis, Lilija Dinere, Dzidra Ezergaile, Inārs Helmūts, Zenta Logina, Genādijs Suhanovs, Semjons Šegelmans, Nele Zirnīte and others.
Curators: Gustavs Grasis and Valters Kalsers
