Venus’ high temperatures and dense atmosphere mean that few space probes have been able to take (colour) photos of the planet’s surface. But what we can see is intriguing: overlapping traces of geological processes – from lava flows to fractures – with an atmosphere, scale and materiality different from our own. This textile research project by Michèle Boulogne reflects on the influence that space research has on our image of other planets. He captured Venus’ unique features in a black and white pixelated image and then converted it in the TextielLab into coloured 3D knits, which give a different materiality to these kinds of inscrutable landscapes.
