06.06.2019 - 26.08.2019

DARK MATTER: 95% OF THE UNIVERSE IS MISSING

One of the biggest mysteries in physics today is what exactly makes up our Universe, and why – according to the world’s leading scientists – 95 per cent of it cannot be observed. Imagining the unseen and questioning the invisible, DARK MATTER explored matter and materiality, the concept of invisibility and infinite divisibility, and the human quest for absolute truth and knowledge.

Through a free exhibition and events programme, DARK MATTER combined art, physics and philosophy, drawing on the latest research from the Department of Physics based in the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences at King’s College London. The season highlighted the critical role of artists, philosophers and storytellers in our understanding of the world around us and invited audiences to question their understanding of physics and even reality itself.

DARK MATTER was reimagined for presentation at Science Gallery Dublin, part of Trinity College Dublin during 2020 and 2021 as INVISIBLE. Featuring the majority of works from the original exhibition, INVISIBLE emphasised the critical role of science, art and philosophy in imagining the unseen – and can be encountered as a virtual exhibition here.

Exhibits

Featured

A Children’s History of Invisibility

Tavares Strachan's work investigates the nature of invisibility in relation to knowledge by “thinking about the things that are not being studied, the things that aren’t visible.

The Maps of Phantom Islands

Much of Agnieszka Kurant’s work investigates ‘the economy of the invisible…

Conversions #1

Agnieszka Kurant’s new commission draws comparisons between the role of dark matter in the physical Universe and the invisible forces of social energy

Hybrid Solitary Semi-Social Instrument

Inside a plexiglass cube, two spiders from the species Aranea Diadema and Cyrtophora Citricola have spun interconnecting webs…

There's more to it than meets the eye

Why does dark matter really matter?

Missing Mass

Is it possible to own dark matter?

Tuning Interference: Dark Matter Radio

Tuning to different frequencies and generating interference patterns in their mind through their physical location in relation to the structure.

Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape

The laws of physics simply don't apply in a cartoon landscape…

Even Darker Matter

In this new short film the concept of dark matter as a missing volume of matter is loosley and ponderously explored through the depth created by the simple effect of home-made 3D.