Venus Does Not Exist

There is only one coloured photograph taken of Venus at ground level. In 1982, the Russian probe Venera 13 managed to send the photo before the probe itself was incinerated by the planet’s high temperature and dense atmosphere. Venus is unfathomable, because its surface is formed by overlapping traces of geological processes ¬— from lava flows to fractures — with an atmosphere, scale and materiality different from our own. Our understanding of the planet is scattered across cosmology, astronomy and restlessly accumulating radar imagery. This textile research proposes to fill the gaps between high-resolution imagery and the first engraved drawings by begging for imagination in order to reconnect them in a tangible space.