Impossible Object | ART IN SPACE | Yasmine Meroz & Liat Segal

SHORT VIDEO Full video:    • Impossible Object | ART IN SPACE | Ya...   For more details go to www.liatsegal.com Impossible Object is one of the few contemporary artworks ever sent to Outer Space. It is a sculpture made of liquid water. The liquid’s three-dimensional form does not get its shape from any vessel and as such cannot exist on Earth, but only in Outer Space in the absence of gravity. The sculpture is built as a composition of brass rods and tubes, through which water flows. With no gravitation to direct the water downwards, the water clings to the sculpture’s metal structure, forming a dynamic three-dimensional liquid composition, shaped by the water’s surface tension and adhesion forces. The sculpture’s composition of rods and tubes resembles a wavy staircase that has no directionality. The work questions shape and form. In the absence of gravitation, what is the shape of a piece of sea or a handful of a wave? ‘Impossible Object’ is a research-based artwork, where micro-gravity physics is the medium. ‘Impossible Object’ was activated and documented on the International Space Station (ISS) by astronaut Eitan Stibe during mission AX-1, April 2022, as part of Rakia Art Mission. Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) was the first private astronaut mission on the International Space Station (ISS), a collaborative effort between SpaceX (shuttle) on behalf of Axiom Space in cooperation with NASA, in which four crew members conducted science, art and outreach activities. The work was created as part of Rakia Art Mission (Ramon Foundation) with support by Mifal Hapais, Asylum Arts, European Union's Horizin 2020 Research and Innovation Program (GrowBot), and The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University. Video by: Naomi Meroz & Assaf Arviv Rakia Art Mission curator: Udi Edelman.