Shipwrecked Spaceship on Remote Planet as Last
Evidence of Human Civilisation (with inscription: “Space Conquered”)
2006
Laquer and marker on aluminium, bolts, flash
180 x 170 x
In around 5 billion years, after the
apocalypse, at a time when our solar system has collapsed and only dust remains
- with nothing other left as evidence of human civilisation – this is probable:
At some point humans have managed to launch a spacecraft to travel beyond our
own planet system; this having crash landed in a deserted place out there
somewhere, its remains now the absolute last remnants of our existence. The
inscription “space conquered” also relates to modern sculpture’s quest for
conquering space in a more earthbound manner.