Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Vapor Trails, Michal Ronnen Safdie’s first exhibition with the Gallery on June 3, 2010.
Vapor trails are a physical phenomenon. At certain altitudes, jet exhaust from the plane’s engine condenses and makes a line of visible H20 in t... Read more
Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Vapor Trails, Michal Ronnen Safdie’s first exhibition with the Gallery on June 3, 2010.
Vapor trails are a physical phenomenon. At certain altitudes, jet exhaust from the plane’s engine condenses and makes a line of visible H20 in the sky. The atmospheric conditions play with this condensation to create an infinite variety of patterns. Each vapor trail also represents an episode of human activity and the hundreds of passengers traveling the sky every day. Manufactured goods crisscrossing the globe – packages mailed for next-day deliveries, fruits, vegetables, flowers and high-end electronic components. These vapor trails are a symbol of the globalized world – a shrinking, borderless planet where we are continually traveling the shortest routes and defying geography.
Ronnen Safdie observes the extraordinary and unpredictable beauty of these patterns, where winds, temperature, and atmospheric conditions act upon a vapor emission and create wiggles, arches, fractal patterns or simply merge into the clouds and disappear to nothingness. Vapor trails are visually pure H20 and harmless to the environment, but do remind us that they are accompanied by burned jet fuel. The beauty observed in the sky also has a price. Given the recent air transport crisis in Europe, we are reminded of the vulnerability of this mode of transportation.
