Ré-imaginer le passé, curated by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Isabel Raabe, Ibou C. Diop, and Malick Ndiaye, is on display at the KINDL — Centre for Contemporary Art until 28 July 2024. The artist Caroline Gueye is presenting her work called Poussière de lune, which was created for the exhibition Ré-imaginer le passe in 2023 and translate into “Moon Dust”. The Artwork is made out of plastic produced according to a secret recipe of the European Space Agency ESA and moon dust.

Caroline Gueye is an artist and astrophysicist who studied in France, the USA, and China. Astrophysics plays a recurring and important role in her artistic practice, as seen in her work Poussière de lune, developed especially for this exhibition. The title, meaning “moon dust”, can be understood literally – the artist used actual lunar dust on the ends of her filigree structure crafted from a special plastic compound produced according to a confidential recipe from the European Space Agency (ESA). Since the moon’s colonisation began with the 1969 American moon landing, lunar soil samples have been brought back to Earth by numerous moon missions, from Apollo 11 to Apollo 17. Laboratory analyses of these samples revealed that the moon’s floor consists of dust formed from repeated meteorite impacts on the lunar surface. For Gueye, moon dust is a substance with ties to both past and future. At the end of the exhibition route visitors arrive at Gueye’s installation, which encourages them to contemplate the future through the lens of the past.