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Space in the image, by Sérgio Mah

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, developed with the European Space Agency. Mah examines Martins’ subject from the framework of Foucault’s conception of heterotopia.

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A sense of wonder, byJohn Gribbin

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, developed with the European Space Agency. Gribbin discusses Martins’ work from the framework of his sense of wonder at the Universe.

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A guided tour of infinity, by João Seixas

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, developed with the European Space Agency. Seixas draws on Martins’ reflections on the fallibility of photographic language to discuss the concept of infinity.

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The poetic quality of the infinite, by Leonor Nazaré

This essay was first published in the catalogue of Martins’ exhibition The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Nazaré reflects on our historical fascination with the unknown and the utopia of space as dystopia.

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