Lunar Redux
2024–26
Lenticular photo-based installation,
190 parts

Installed as an open archive, Lunar Redux presents lenticular prints of the declassified document Project A119, formally titled A Study of Lunar Research Flights. Conceived during the Cold War Space Race, this secret proposal explored the idea of detonating a nuclear device on the Moon. The study was commissioned by the United States Air Force and coordinated by physicist Leonard Reiffel, with contributions from young scientists, including Carl Sagan, who worked on modelling how dust would disperse in the Moon’s near-vacuum. The Moon, a metronome of measurement and gravitational force governing life on Earth, was posited as a site for a militaristic blast that would be visible across continents. Project A119 never left the page. Classified until the early 1990s, it reads as an afterimage of a period when geopolitics intruded upon the laws of the cosmos. By translating the pages into lenticular prints, Kallat dissolves Project A119’s methodical speculation into a field of visual instability verging on hallucination.