Installation at IKON Gallery in Birmingham, UK

Smooth Structures:
Organised by: Maarten Vanden Eynde, Marjolijn Dijkman and Smart Project Space.
Location: Smart Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam, NL
Participating Artists: Erick Beltrán, Marjolijn Dijkman, Martijn Hendriks, Toril Johannessen, Mungo Thomson, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Rinus Vande Velde.
Participating Scientist: Martin Lo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA

For more information about Smooth Structures check: enoughroomforspace.org

Text by Martin Wen-Yu Lo on Dark Matter / Energy

Composition of the Universe

Composition of the Universe takes the current dominant model of the universe (74% dark energy, 22% dark matter and 4% ordinary matter) and visualizes alternative models to represent the same figures.

The models represent the same breakdown, but depending on the use of different shapes new yet equally complete universes are brought into being.

Visitors, especially children, are welcome to play with the wooden forms, the artist is referencing a human compulsion to explain, quantify and record our environment.