A historical image of particle collisions, once used to render the invisible perceptible, now travels aboard TES-22 within the very environment it sought to describe. Laser-etched into a polyimide film and partially sheltered by the satellite’s aluminium shell, the work exists in a suspended state between exposure and erosion.
The scientific image is displaced from the laboratory into low Earth orbit, where it persists not simply as representation, but as a material trace that will gradually decay through interactions with the same particles whose decay it once helped to picture.