Recyclable rockets, new types of space telescopes in search of Earth-like planets and stations on Mars - utopias of a new generation of space enthusiasts have been in the media since the beginning of the 21st century. It almost seems that against the background of climate change and growing inequality, people are already looking for alternative habitats, a restart of our civilisation. 
At the same time, there are more and more critics who question the enormous costs of space travel and weigh them against necessary earthly development programmes. This criticism is not new and was already a topic of discussion in the USA in the late 1960s when, for example, Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader and ally of Martin Luther King, led protests against the moon landing in 1969.
My art is generally about science and science fiction. My project remains on those traces and was developed against the background of criticism of space travel. I live in Marseille, a city with extreme poverty on the one hand and wealth and beauty on the other. The proximity of the two, sometimes only a few meters away from each other, is startling. My project depicts an icon of progress and utopias: the space suit, as a symbol that can be found everywhere in popular culture today - in literature, in cinema and in advertising. The work itself consists of three space suits inspired by this symbol. All materials are exclusively found remnants of urban life - old mattresses, soiled fabric and civilisational waste.