Planets in My Head, Physics

Yinka Shonibare's Planets in My Head, Physics celebrates the mystery of the night sky and the thrill of discovery. Here, a curious young girl, wearing high-top button shoes and a Victorian dress cut from Colonialist fabric, steps upon a wooden case to peer through a telescope into the vast beyond. Her head, a black celestial globe, dances with the names of physicists and astronomers. Like us, she is the inheritor of knowledge gleaned through centuries of time by scholars from every part of the world. Archimedes, Galileo, Einstein and Hawking are there, as are Shen Kuo, Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Yoshio Nishina and Brahmagupta. Additional works in Shonibare's Planets in My Head series include Arts and Literature.