We create the Universe: artists and scientists take on the Big Bang
Malevich's drawing brought a powerfully destabilising sense of movement to a room against other dynamic works including Lilian Lijn’s 1968 quantum-inspired kinetic sculpture, ‘Liquid Reflections’ and Cornelia Parker’s ‘Einstein’s Abstracts’ (1999). We interpreted Leo Robinson’s 2017 pencil drawing and collage ‘The Lake (Newton)’ as capturing the profound moment when Einstein replaces Newton’s mystical conception of the Universe, marking the birth of modern cosmology. We also placed Gavin Jantjes’s ‘Untitled’ from the series ‘Zulu, the sky above your head’, 1998, a representation of the Kho San people’s creation myth, at the start of the exhibition, as a reminder that science has not replaced broader cultural beliefs, but added new dimensions.
