Voyager 5, 1996

6mm gold plated magnet, superconductor, copper tube, liquid nitrogen, glass tube.

©Arijana Kajfes

Photo: Roger Andersson

Suspended in space, the small golden conical shape represents a module that encapsulates a compressed body. Attempted confinement of infinite space in a frozen moment. Positioned as a relic in a small niche in the wall, the liquid nitrogen boils away in the heat of room temperature and the magnet succumbs to gravity. Every approximate hour a man in a white laboratory coat refills the test tube with liquid nitrogen, creating a white cloud of cold evaporating smoke in the process.