New York, September 11, 2001, Four Days Later…

New York, September 11, 2001, Four Days Later….
On September 15, 2001, the high-resolution sensors of the Ikonos satellite passed over lower Manhattan, collecting data. For an exhibition on the “rhetorics of surveillance” at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe, this installation asked about the relation between catastrophe and memory, suffering and exposure, information and experience—by printing the satellite image across 102 square meters of the gallery’s floor.

“......Especially provocative in this regard is New York, September 11, 2001, Four Days Later… by architect Laura Kurgan, a massive digital print of a commercial satellite mapping of a devastated lower Manhattan set on the floor. Although the imaging power of the satellite (fittingly named Ikonos) reaches to one-meter resolution, Kurgan concludes that the resultant “evidence reveals little, and is forensically of little use”: “what is missing are the missing.” Hal Foster

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