DAY SKY
book launch, exhibition
15 May 2025, 17:00–20:00
Day Sky is a publication by visual artist Henriette Heise that presents a cosmology of exhausted, flat and depressed planets — and one moon: The Snot Moon
When it is dark and there are no clouds, we can see the night sky and feel the dizzying vastness of the universe. Day Sky is the opposite. It is a flat cosmology for life on Earth:
Some years ago, two characters appeared in Heise’s work: The Depressed Planet and The Flanet (the flat planet). Since then, other husked figures have been added to the cosmology with increasingly weary appearances in films, paintings, drawings, texts, sculptures and now — with this publication — as prints.
Sometimes the chosen materials are performing like a cloak of invisibility as if The Depressed Planet, The Flanet and The Snot Moon are dressing up to disappear. Day Sky is an attempt to find a form where they can exist on their own terms. Through motif, choice of materials and printing method they might complicate the conversation about who and what is allowed to be visible, and on what terms.
Heise asked stanza to design a frame for the Day Sky drawings. Each publication contains seven different drawings individually made by Heise with pencil, drawing/printing through carbon paper.
Steven Zultanski has written a text for the Day Sky publication: Weepy
Join us at stanza for the launch and exhibition — there will be drinks!
One night, I got the idea that I could cover the perfect circle with my snot and in the end I would have something that looked like the moon, with a flashlight hanging in the middle.
—Steven Zultanski, ‘Weepy,’ in Day Sky, 2025.