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As it is standing now, space law is mostly a product of the Cold War and, as such, a compromise between the capitalist and socialist ideologies. As a result, it forms a separate block of international law obeying to original principles. Space law is a reality based on several international treaties and some practice but, no major international success in improving or expending the original rules have been achieved for a while. This situation had driven certain to stress that important matters remain underdeveloped and that some specific rules are missing. In fact, the actual evolution of the world is rising the question of the viability of the general principles presently governing outer space. In our opinion, those unattended issues include the important growth of the commercial exploitation of space in our globalisation context as well as the question---prompted by the unilateral approach of certain States---of how and by whom Space should be controlled or policed.

The Empty Space project aims to explore the interior and exterior space of an object through the use of Perspex. The solidity of the concrete or minimalist art object and the space that it physically occupies will be challenged by the use of visually ambiguous material. Physically solid yet visually transparent or reflective, perspex challenges our perception of solidity - what is internal and what is external. It is by nature a subversive and ambiguous material. The visual transparency of the material contradicts the physical presence of the object it creates. It creates a play between presence and absence. It is this spatial contradiction that this project exploits in order to create physical and visual tension. The solid physicality of the objects will directly draw on the tradition of concrete art and the language of minimalism. The visual transparency of the material will however, subvert this language both conceptually and literally. This will make the relationship between internal and external space more complex, challenging the physicality of the art object and questioning the nature of solidity.

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