26/05/2026
The flickering imagery in Nanna Debois Buhl’s series of prints depicts matter that is normally too microscopic to grasp and too foundational to comprehend.
Prints from the series ‘A Cosmic Roar’ by Nanna Debois Buhl will be part of upcoming exhibition, Dreamy Etchings, opening on Friday 29 May
Visualisations of dust grains from meteorites form the basis of the black-and-white photogravures. These dust grains contain particles that are more than 4.5 billion years old – older than our solar system. The wealth of detail invisible to the eye on the dust grain’s surface is given a new digital entity when read by the microscope and translated by computer software. In the resulting computer-generated 3D model, the meteoritic dust samples appear as black-and-white digital landscapes of stirred waters, peaks, and valleys.
A Cosmic Roar evolves from Nanna Debois Buhl’s practice-based PhD project Picture the Sky: Cosmic Code, Images, and Imaginaries, in which Buhl considers the image as a tool with which to map and to speculate. The series of prints emerges from her conversations with astrophysicist Anja Cetti Andersen and nanophysicist Tue Hassenkam from the University of Copenhagen.
