In her film “Ground” (2020), Thornton outlines the coming into form of a reality in which the ground or base—like the ground of a painting or the physical ground that human existence has always been pulled toward by gravity—becomes undefined.

Collide International was created to foster creative collisions between art and physics, and to encourage advance knowledge in the arts. Collide International is Arts at CERN’s flagship programme and residency award, organised every three years in partnership with a city and a cultural organisation.

Quàntica features ten artworks resulting from the Collide International residency awards. The exhibition is open at CCCB Barcelona from 10 April - 24 September 2019

The first of a new series of art commissions in collaboration with international cultural institutions, The View from Nowhere presents in a single video channel installation a reflection about the role of science as an objective analysis of the natural world.