"A celestial event, no words to describe it, they should have sent a poet (capítulo I y II) " / François Bucher

The two chapters of François Bucher’s exhibition at joségarcía, mx — mérida belong to the series Contact, an ongoing body of works inspired on Carl Sagan’s famous novel and on the cult film that goes by the same name. The title for the show comes from the utterance of the novel’s heroine, Ellie, after she has gone through a wormhole that led her to the star Vega on her path to her appointment with the “Absolute other”. The novel tells the story of an extraterrestrial intelligence that has established contact with the human race, Ellie has been chosen as our civilization’s representative. Just before the encounter, she pronounces these words: Some celestial event. No words to describe it. They should have sent a poet.

Chapter I

The first chapter of the exhibition seeks to express the poetry in Athanasius Kircher’s combinatorial diagrams (XVII Century), broadly considered as precursors to modern…