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A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity

Katie Paterson's biggest art show yet gives gallery-goers a tantalising taste of space and time at a cosmic scale

13 February 2019

piano — Earth-Moon-Earth plays Beethoven reflected back from the moon
a place that only exists in moonlight, Katie Paterson & J M W Turner, at Turner Contemporary

A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight: Katie Paterson & J. M. W. Turner , Margate, UK,to 6 May 2019

WHAT colour is the universe? Right now, according to Scottish artist Katie Paterson, it is beige; astronomers from Johns Hopkins University call it “cosmic latte”.

Paterson’s new work enlists astrophysical research to present the ever-changing spectrum of cosmic events over billions of years in the form of a rapidly rotating colour wheel.

This rainbow spinner,…

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