This motif of the series of landscapes from the planet Mars refers to images taken by the 'Curiosity' rover on Mars in 2021. The exploration of Mars – with the Curiosity Rover since 2012 and the Perseverance Rover since 2020– serves NASA's speculative plans to establish an inhabited space station on the planet in the not so distant future.
Kyriaki Goni translates these images into a sophisticated weaving technique for large tapestries. In Jacquard or Gobelin weaving, each individual warp thread can be laid to the front or to the back. This technique makes it possible to depict motifs in great detail and in many colors. It deliberately quotes the weaving technique of historical tapestries, on which the newly discovered continents such as India, North and South America or the South Seas were depicted.
The labels accompanying the tapestries provide further information. In addition to the coordinates, date and name of the landscape, they explain individual details of the tapestries. On landscape VI, for example, there is an inserted motif showing a symbol placed on the rover out of respect for the perseverance of healthcare workers during the corona epidemic.
The text field above the overall motif reads: 'The insatiable desire of humanity to explore the unknown is encoded in its DNA.'