Bahareh Khoshooee

Developed in collaboration with Naz Orakzay and presented at Penumbra Foundation in New York, And She Made the Moon a Light in Their Midst brings together sculpture, projection mapping, moving images, and sound to reconsider the Moon as a site of technological ambition, colonial imagination, and contested histories. Drawing on the visual and political legacies of lunar exploration, the installation uses a large-scale sculptural crater and projected imagery to question the supposedly neutral technologies through which distant territories are observed, mapped, and claimed. The work considers the relationship between technological progress, extractive histories, and the politics of looking, while imagining alternative relationships to celestial bodies beyond conquest and possession.