o var dm 33

In this neon series, Miriam Hamann traces the work of the women astronomers who mapped and classified the night sky around 1900. Their work laid the foundations for our understanding of the universe, yet remained largely unrecognized for decades. Working from hundreds of thousands of astronomical photographs, the so-called Harvard Computers developed systems that made the sky legible as an ordered field. In her neon installations, Hamann translates these systems of classification into artistic material and a sculptural language, moving between light and system, observation and abstraction, the individual object and a comparative cosmic order.