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Haseeb Ahmed: Ruach not Rauch

Past exhibition
24 April - 29 May 2019
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Haseeb Ahmed, A is for Albatross, 2015

Haseeb Ahmed

A is for Albatross, 2015
Archival FujiFlex super glossy mounted on Diasec Plexi and Alu-Dibond
55.6 x 41.3 x 2.5 cm
21 7/8 x 16 1/4 x 1 in
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Copyright the artist & Harlan Levey Projects
This image documents a test conducted at the Plasmatron at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, a NATO facility on the outskirts of Brussels. The Plasmatron is one of...
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This image documents a test conducted at the Plasmatron at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid
Dynamics, a NATO facility on the outskirts of Brussels.
The Plasmatron is one of two in the world and within it the conditions of atmospheric reentry for Earth
or any other planet can be simulated. The heat generated is approximately equivalent to that of the
surface of the Sun.

This letter “A” is made out of P90 cork, the same material the hulls of spaceships are made from. This
was a test to see if language can descend from the Heavens to the Earth. The model survived and the
results were positive. This is a preliminary study for forms of exo-planetary colonization.

Special thanks to Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dyanmics, Prof. Dr. Olivier Chazot, Pascal Collin,
Sebastian Paris, PhD, Isil Sakrakar, Ertan Umit, Size Matters research group, Prof. Florian Dombois
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