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On view at The Image Centre in Toronto, January 22 - April 5, 2025.

Since the early 1960s, a succession of spacecraft, launched and controlled remotely, have voyaged through the solar system, photographing and feeding back to Earth a steady stream of extraterrestrial imagery. Using this raw picture data, sourced from space agency archives, American artist Michael Benson processes, reworks, and composites individual frames to produce highly detailed images of the planets and their orbiting moons. His photographs show these celestial bodies from unusual vantage points and render light and color with startling clarity. Benson’s appropriation and reinvention of images taken by robotic spacecraft offers an astonishing alternative to society’s visual clichés of outer space, restoring a sense of wonder to scenes beyond the reach of mankind.