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Daniela Brill Estrada & Monica C. LoCascio, Begriff des Körpers, 2025

What roles do language and the body play in shaping our understanding of the cosmos?

This artwork reflects on the nature of perception and the capacity of language to create shared understanding. Quantum science is rich in metaphors - mountains, chameleons, strings - which help conceptualise otherworldly phenomena through comparison to the world we know.

The nets and hanging copper sculptures evoke shapes and diagrams scientists use to depict spacetime and quantum phenomena. The use of copper also recalls the human and environmental impacts of copper mining; a key material in quantum technologies. The copper drawings relate to the Jacquard loom punch cards which influenced binary code, highlighting the role of female labour in the development of computing.

Daniela Brill Estrada is an artist and researcher from Bogotá, living and working in Vienna. Her artistic practice explores life’s origins, astrobiology, and chemical trajectories from elements such as carbon. She is artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute and Coalesce and a PhD candidate in Art-Science and Transformation Studies at the JKU, Linz, and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Monica C. LoCascio is a transdisciplinary artist focusing on the materiality of invisible phenomena. Her works derive from her material and theoretical research on memory, microbiology, theoretical physics, and hierarchies of knowledge and power. She completed her MA in Art&Science at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, where she currently resides.

Created in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s Gravity Laboratory and ARTlab Nottingham, with contributions by UoN physicists. The artists also thank Ed Copeland and the Framework Knitters Museum (donated antique wool) and the Cluny Lace Company (donated thread cones)