Celestis Obscura is an installation that brings together five celestial bodies – Titan, Asteroid, Moon, Mars, and 16 Psyche – each currently the focus of emerging commercial mining or colonisation ventures. In a dark, intimate space, visitors encounter each body individually: a glowing planetary surface suspended on its own screen above a desk, accompanied by an old telephone waiting to be picked up.

The work draws a direct line between historical resource extraction on Earth and the accelerating commercialisation of outer space. It asks what it means to understand these distant worlds not as unknown frontiers, but as economic territories already in the process of being mapped and claimed. At its core, the work reflects on how systems of extraction, ownership, and value are projected beyond the planet itself.