29/10/2025
Deep Space Station / Hermes Enodios
two drawings on rice paper, ink, silver foil, graphite,
1.08 x 2.80m each
According to the curator of :
On a hybrid cartography where the utopian is simulated, Rosa Zeidan’s Deep Space Station / Hermes Enodios (2025), devises an internal mechanism for envisioning the bodiless and the futuristic. The artist crafts an autonomous survival module, where architecture becomes an expression of existential persistence. Hermes Enodios, guardian of passages, thresholds and crossings, is introduced as the overseer of transition. The space station is presented as a condensation of structure and morphology, with allusions to incomplete historical paradigms. The first design is organised into three distinct segments, which incorporate unrealised
proposals for urban complexes: the Ville de Chaux by C.N. Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806) and the 1833 plan for Athens by St. Kleanthis (1802-62) and E. Schaubert (1804-60), eminent architects and urban planners.
The renditions of these model variations are rebuilt as operational blueprints of extraterrestrial habitation,
conveying the distinct mark of a marginalised modernist vision. The third section is shaped in the form of the
Pythagorean Y. According to Pythagoras (ca. 570 BC - 495 BC), the letter Y symbolises the point where a person
must choose between two paths: that of virtue or that of error. The second design focuses on the mechanical transcription of the imaginary. Zeidan brings together the equations of two different eras, those of Hypatia (Neoplatonic philosopher and astronomer, ca. 370 - 415 AD) and Katherine Johnson (pioneering American mathematician, 1918 - 2020) into a single numerical idiom that cannot be deployed precisely because it only exists as a speculative account. Mechanical knowledge is presented as fragments of an unmapped body, a control centre, which is rooted more in mnemonic strata than in technical precision. Zeidan conceives a refuge of provisional stay, where reorientation materialises as a pressing necessity of the future. Hermes does not vouch for the destination, but he makes the embarkation possible.