Syzygy

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Syzygy is a major solo exhibition of Katie Paterson, one of the UK’s most ambitious and exciting multidisciplinary artists, and will feature two new commissions that will be shown alongside a selection of her career highlights. Paterson’s work centres on themes of nature, ecology and landscape, underpinned by intense scientific research and an emphasis on diverse collaborations with writers, astronomers, nanotechnologists and musicians. The two new commissions for The Lowry include a mirror ball made up of 13,000 images of solar eclipses from across the world, exploring the relationship of our planet Earth to the sun and the solar system; and an immersive installation with light bulbs of the Andromeda star system. The show will include recent works such as Earth, Moon, Earth – a haunting recording of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata reflected from the moon’s surface via radio transmissions; and All the Dead Stars, a large map documenting the locations of 27,000 dead stars known to humanity.