Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, 2019-2024

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow takes the International Date Line—an invisible and imaginary boundary between two days, roughly following the 180th meridian across the Pacific Ocean, with some deviations—as a starting point for an exploration of the codes that shape our understanding of space-time. The work extends Detanico/Lain’s ongoing dialogue between two complementary realms: signs and forms, a dialogue they have been developing for over two decades through a practice rooted in semiotics and graphic design. Drawing on scientific concepts and cartographic logic, their conceptual approach subtly reinterprets systems of measurement and codification, offering a more imaginative and subjective perception of time—one that invites us to “rethink our relationship to the world in light of the (dizzying) scale of what transcends us.”

Quote from Pierre Malherbet, “Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain’s graphic cosmogonies”, magazine of the Centre Pompidou, 25 Sep 2024.