The exhibition Instruments of Vision, by the artist Armin Linke, extends its stay in Santiago de Compostela until Saturday 21 September. The project, the result of a collaboration between the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE) and Arts at CERN, commemorates the 25th anniversary of the IGFAE and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The exhibition, which has received more than 30,000 visits since its opening, will remain at the Igrexa da Universidade from Tuesday to Saturday, from 11.00 to 20.00 hours.
Instruments of Vision brings together more than 20 years of work by photographer and filmmaker Armin Linke (Milan, 1966), based on the observation of research carried out in large experimental infrastructures such as CERN, the Laboratori Nazionali di Gran Sasso (L’Aquila, Italy), or the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck (Austria). For this occasion, Armin Linke has produced a series of works that show the scientific work of the IGFAE staff, present in some of the most important international scientific collaborations in particle physics, such as the LHCb experiment at CERN.
This project is curated by Mónica Bello (Santiago de Compostela, 1973), director of Arts at CERN, the art programme of this scientific organisation, and is part of the commitment made in recent years by the IGFAE’s ArtLab, with the aim of opening new spaces for connection with society. Instruments of Vision also contributes to the dialogue between contemporary art and the IGFAE’s lines of research.
New outreach activities
In the coming weeks, the Igrexa da Universidade will host new outreach activities around Instruments of Vision. On the one hand, new guided tours will be offered. In addition to this Tuesday, August 27th, from 19.00 to 20.00 hours, there will be a new opportunity on September 19th, at the same time. Registration, free of charge, can be done through the exhibition website, instrumentosdevision.igfae.usc.es. This activity is sponsored by Horta Coslada.
In addition, coinciding with the start of the academic year, schools in the Santiago de Compostela area will be able to see, as part of the exhibition, some of the ‘instruments of vision’ used by IGFAE staff to demonstrate the fundamental components of matter, such as the fog chamber or the portable MiniPix detector, developed by CERN.
Finally, on Friday 20 September, a conversation on the influence of the contributions of particle physics to society in terms of contemporary narratives will take place at the Igrexa da Universidade. Mario Regueira (writer and literary critic), Iria Veiga (psychiatrist) and Carlos Salgado (IGFAE director) will be the speakers. This activity is jointly organised with the Asociación Galega da Crítica.
About the IGFAE
The Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE) is a research centre founded in 1999 by the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Xunta de Galicia. It was created to coordinate and promote scientific and technical research in the fields of High Energy, Particle and Nuclear Physics, and related areas such as Astrophysics, Medical Physics and Instrumentation. Since its creation, IGFAE staff have participated in some of the world’s largest experimental facilities, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
The IGFAE’s scientific work and its international projection have earned it recognition as a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, awarded by the State Research Agency of the Spanish government. It is, so far, the only Galician centre to have obtained this prestigious seal. The IGFAE also has the accreditation of excellence of the Galician Network of Research Centres, granted by the Xunta de Galicia.
