Michael Najjar @ArtScience Museum, Singapore

BANK is proud to announce that the work of artist, Michael Najjar is showcased in the exhibition “Mars: The Red Mirror” at The ArtScience Museum in Singapore. This exhibition is presented by ArtScience Museum and the Centre of Contemporary Culture Barcelona, with curator Juan Insua.

 

​Michael Najjar photographed Elon Musk's SpaceX Starbase in 2021, when he created an epic triptych, showing the futuristic spaceport under construction at night. In Singapore, Michael Najjar’s large-scale triptych starbase (2022), the video terraforming (2017), and his most recent video *starship (2023), which will have its international premiere in this exhibition. 

 

“Mars: The Red Mirror” explores humanity’s fascination and connection with the planet Mars — from ancient times to the present — through art, history, and science. It is also the first exhibition to synthesize 12,000 years of cultural history surrounding Mars by featuring rare scientific manuscripts that have shaped modern astronomy, contemporary artworks that propose Mars as ‘Planet B’, an authentic Martian meteorite, and much, much more. Journeying from ancient myth to what may become a very real future, this exhibition confronts the current crises facing planet Earth while envisioning humanity’s possible future relationship with Mars.

November 25, 2023