The Lunar System New As We Used to Float

As We Used to Float explores Bikini Atoll as a space of fantasy and trauma

wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns that the adventure of ornithology is as preoccupied with the evolutionary meaning of allopreening among avifauna as it is with their taxonomical domination

Kaḷaripayaṭṭ

she worked in cultural and arts education for projects with a focus on transculturality and

The Lunar System New As We Used to FloatIn The Lunar System, artist Hanna Mattes interweaves reality and mythology by juxtaposing photographs taken in Chile with autofictional poems. Basing her views on the planetary system of our galaxy, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter give structure to her life: already as a teenager, Mattes and her friends gave each other as well as family members and loved ones secret planetary nicknames. In 2017, she spent a residency in the Atacama Desert photographing the