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In The Space Project, Brussels-based photographer takes us on a curious photographic journey through the retro-infused, futuristic world of the age of space-travel.  

Over the four years of work on this project Fournier has managed to gain access to some of the most important and often secretive facilities and institutions of the space-age,  including , in Utah, the Guiana Space Centre and Nasa’s Apollo control centre.

Fournier uses this access to re-interpretate his topic with a sense of irony and aesthetic that has been compared to an “encounter with Jules Verne and Jacques Tati”.  Whilst the facilities and settings are real, the images are created  to invoke something that is not there, a dreamy science-fiction world that highlights an “ambivalence between fantasy and reality”

The Space Project is on display at until 17th Janurary 2010.

See more: The strange world of space travel