In 1977, NASA launched into space two probes containing 115 images (and one to calibrate in order to be able to decode the others) meant to tell a hypothetical alien civilization about our planet.
Voyager SNC revisits that endeavor from a personal and ironic perspective.
Unlike NASA's message sent on behalf of all humanity, this is the message of an individual telling about humankind in his own way. The sender and the recipients are unknown to each other: the sender writes from an unspecified place (SNC means "with no house number"); the recipients are lost in space, but they might discover something through the images and the accompanying letter, if they manage to decipher it,
Imagining these photos as truly traveling through interstellar space, the project suggests that this capsule contains a kind of temporal suspension. Voyager SNC tells us that, in the end, the destination is just a pretext to embark on a journey, and that the beauty of an endless, solitary interstellar voyage symbolizes the eternal search for something that, even if frightening, goes beyond the mere achievement of a goal.
We are already aboard a spaceship: it's our planet, depicted in the images. In a playful tone, this work explores the passage of time, reminding us that the most important thing is not to take ourselves too seriously because everything is fleeting.
