2024.02.23. Blame it on the Falling Sky, Blame it on the Satellite

BLAME IT ON THE FALLING SKY, BLAME IT ON THE SATELLITE

Huirong Ye (MDes Narratives ’24)

Zhanyi Chen (MIT SMACT ’24)

Blame It on the Falling Sky, Blame It on the Satellite is a duo exhibition by Huirong Ye and Zhanyi Chen about weather, mediation, romance, womanhood, and the desire to escape. Anchored in two parafictional stories of women—a meteorologist who exchanges messages of love through weather charts, and a painter who falls in love with clouds and sees a weather satellite as a romantic rival—the exhibition creates a milieu where technology, affection, memory, and the sky intersect. The juxtaposition of the two installations, symbolizing the duality of window/canvas and screen/surface respectively, reveals the tension between transcendent dreams and unyielding reality; between scientific precision and situated knowledge; between atmospheric projection and projected atmosphere. In the liminal space between the tangible and intangible, the factual and the imaginary, the isolated and the public, the confined and the emancipated, technologized-media and embodied-experiences both connect and distance, distort and clarify.