NEOs by Ezio D’Agostino

A collection of works by Italian photographer Ezio D’Agostino.

In 2016, the Luxembourg government announced SpaceResources.lu, a space program aimed at exploring asteroids and near-Earth objects (NEOs). Luxembourg, after the United States, established a legal framework permitting the use of minerals in space (currently following a 1967 international treaty preventing national allocations of these resources), and for the commercialization of raw materials extracted from space. It has become a state-of-the-art research and construction center.

There are arguments that this program will improve the living conditions of humans, but it is also said that it will be one of the most lucrative businesses of the second half of this century, dominated by individual speculators. . Based on wreckage, debris, and memory, D'Agostino constructs a visual and political world about the influence of this new and cyclical external activity in the late capitalist era.

First edition of 500 copies.

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Title: NEOs
Artist: Ezio D'Agostino
Skinnerboox, 2019
Softcover, two books inside a silkscreen printed silver envelope, Swiss binding
240 x 300 mm, 48 pages + 24 pages
First edition of 500 copies
ISBN: 9788894895209
¥5,000 + tax