Dreamy sci-fi world (Image:Vincent Fournier/The Space Project/Courtesy of The Steps Gallery, London, UK)
In The Space Project, Brussels-based photographer Vincent Fournier takes us on a curious photographic journey through the retro-infused, futuristic world of the age of space-travel.
Over the four years of work on this project Fournier has managed to gain access to some of the most important and often secretive facilities and institutions of the space-age, including The Yuri Gagarin Cosmouaut Training Facility, The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, the Guiana Space Centre and Nasa’s Apollo control centre.
Fournier uses this access to re-interpretate his topic with a sense of irony and aesthetic that has been compared to an “encounter with Jules Verne and Jacques Tati”. Whilst the facilities and settings are real, the images are created to invoke something that is not there, a dreamy science-fiction world that highlights an “ambivalence between fantasy and reality”
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The Space Project is on display at The London Art Fair until 17th Janurary 2010.
See more: The strange world of space travel
