Alexander Gerst is the third German to visit the ISS. Alexander is a geophysicist and a volcanologist and his name Gerst is very similar to main character of videogame Geist (geist is also a German word and depending on context it can be translated as the English words mind, spirit, or ghost
The dark corridors of this house of sleeping astronauts take on the atmosphere of film noir, a contemporary blade runner looking the spatial transcripts on the park by Bernard Tschumi, as if this is secretly a crime scene, still flickering with the last lights of its drained batteries, and these are the first photos to be taken upon arrival.
This derive, around this non-space vs place, takes narrative suspense and the main goal are details. Why the cupboard door is left open?, its contents bare for all to see? And are those objects messily scattered about, the result a struggle, an scenography, or is this just the normal state of things in zero-g?
In any case, proving that international scientific organizations have an active sense of humor, the photos were actually released on October 31, Halloween!
All information via alexandergerst.esa.int
