THIS AGGREGATE OF IMAGES THAT IS THE UNIVERSE (currently in post-production)
film installation, 23 min., 2025 
perforated screen, 210 x 280 cm

This Aggregate of Images That Is the Universe (currently in post-production) appropriates a photographic archive from Harvard‘s Department of Astronomy to situate socio-political histories of seeing and knowledge production in the context of contemporary forms of data extractivism. Departing from the re-enactment of a photograph of a group of female astronomers from 1890, the film talks about the history of Harvard‘s observatory in Peru and the processes of extraction (of labour and resources) and erasure (of other kinds of knowledges) that underlie imperialistic scientific projects. While on screen a group of women is reciting an opaque system of numbers, the voices off screen are unpacking the numbers as histories of labour, science and representation.

This Aggregate of Images That Is the Universe is presented as a film projection on a hand-perforated screen which is based on a constellation of stars called the Small Magellanic Cloud. As the light of the projector is flowing through the holes of the screen, the installation expands the film specially into a flaring universe of past images.