DORT 2010 | Victoria-Crater | Mars

DORT 2010 | Victoria-Crater Mars | FineArtPrint on handmade paper overlaid with 37 sentences | Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech | © artwork: Jochen Kitzbihler

Image 2: Exhibition situation Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel 2010 | framed 137 x 137 cm | Right in image: Passage 2010 | erosion foundling in erosion sand on measuring stick

Image 3: DORT 2012 | Image Installation at the outside wall of Bibliothèque Humaniste Sélestat | digital print on paper, varnished, 300 x 240 cm | Further project information: /documentation/exhibitions

Statement jk:

The concept-image DORT (There) is based on a satellite image of Victoria Crater on Mars. The highly aesthetic, eroded crater can be described as one of the most explored places in the solar system, outside of Earth and the moon. DORT is a symbol of man's deep longing and his unstoppable desire to expand. The fascinating image of this supposed place of salvation led me to create imaginary and naive statements, to simple and philosophical questions and even to a formulation of fears or concerns about a concept of existence in this seemingly paradisiacal place on our neighboring planet.