After almost five years working on Hemelliggaam Or The Attempt To Be Here Now, a visual archive of
photographs, video and installations, the two artists presents a new selection of work from the project to
commemorate 200 years of the first permanent modern observatory in Africa.
The Mirror is a
physical exhibition (Indoor-Outdoor) as well as a virtual one, where images, video text and sounds are
overlapping to generate new meanings. Both settings aim to explore the existential contents of
Hemelliggaam Or the Attempt To Be Here Now, moving between science and fiction, reality and vision -
pushing the boundaries of the archive.
Curator
Filippo Maggia
Sound compositions Alessandro Gigli
Scientific team Mattia Vaccari, Lucia
Marchetti and Michelle Cluver from Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western
Cape.
Consultant Davide Chinigo
Supported by 
National Research Foundation
Institute of Italian Culture, Pretoria
Consulate of Italy in
Cape Town
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Special thanks to
Friends of Thandolwethu
Badhen Lab
Prof Hedley Twidle