The Red Star

THE RED STAR,, gypsum boards, crystal blocks, water tank, glass, water, lighting and aluminum frame, 60x100x60cm.

THE RED STAR,, gypsum boards, water tank, glass, water, lighting and aluminum frame, 60x100x60cm

THE RED STAR,, gypsum boards, crystal blocks, lighting, and aluminum frame, 20x30x15cm.

THE RED STAR, gypsum boards, crystal blocks and bights, water tank, glass, water, lighting, wood and aluminum frame, 60x100x60cm.

THE RED STAR,, gypsum boards, crystal, water tank, glass, water, lighting, wood and aluminum frame, 60x100x60cm.

THE RED STAR

Curator: Joshua Simon

Noa Yafe’s diorama of Mars – also known as the “Red Planet” – accompanies the exhibition “the Kids Want Communism” at MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam) throughout the year.

Yafe created a box of illusions based on photographic documentation, bringing the observatory and the planetarium into the museum space. Four framed images are hung on the walls of the space: two photographs and two holograms. All four are made of substances that have physical volume (such as glass and water), displayed under custom lighting that makes them appear as photographic images. Aquariums containing painted glass and laser-engraved blocks of crystal show the Red Planet and its surface in black and white. They also show the devices that have produced the photographs on which the installation is based – the unmanned spacecraft Viking, which left Earth in 1975, and the space probe it had launched, which landed on the surface of Mars eleven months later.

Yafe’s work connects NASA’s current attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the connotative meaning of Mars as a potentially habitable planet. The possibility of an “outside” to Earth – of different life forms – is what has inspired communist science-fiction literature, which portrayed Mars as a potential habitat for the existence of an utterly different society, i.e. a completely different social order than the one we are immersed in today.

Nowadays, after having destroyed planet Earth, the sole motivation for venturing into space is to colonize other planets. Even the calls to protect Planet Earth serve one higher purpose – that of saving capitalism. Within this system, even outer space is not external, but is part of a system of exploitation whose forces are currently at work on Planet Earth.

In recent years, Noa Yafe has developed ways of articulating the gap between photography and sculpture. She constructs pictures from materials that she produces and frames like a photograph. Navigating between the illusion that reconstitutes an image as a photograph and the appearance of the physical materials performing as a photograph, Yafe’s installation articulates the possibility of imagining an “outside,” and of creating it here ourselves.

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