The Lost Pleiades a story by Nidhi Khurana
ARTEculations from ITERARTE · ITERARTE
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Show Notes
During her residency at Westwerk, Nidhi collaborated with Dr. Pranjal Trivedi, astrophysics
researcher at Hamburg Observatory, University of Hamburg, delving into cosmic mysteries
mapped across space and time. Pranjal’s research focused on the nature of dark matter and on
the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields.
We (both the artist and scientist) are made of cosmic dust and the gold and silver used in
the artwork were forged in the belly of the stars only to be scattered across the galaxy by
supernovae. The collaboration is a continuous conversation of creative exchange that
interrogates changing perceptions and mappings of the sky over the last 500 years; from a
tableau for creation myths to a celestial compass useful for locating ourselves to navigate
across the seas.
Peter Whitfield in Mapping the Heavens wrote "The desire to observe, chart and understand
a realm of the universe that was permanently beyond the reach of direct experience was
driven by intellectual curiosity in its purest forms.”