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Chronos Cube

An archive of humanity and the planet we call home.

henrique frazão chronos cube arquivo cápsula tempo cubo fotografia arte conceptual alterações climáticas emergência artista

“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

henrique frazão chronos cube arquivo cápsula tempo cubo fotografia arte conceptual alterações climáticas emergência artista

A cube with 576 images inside.

Central module of an infinite system.


This project intends to be taken to exhaustion, with the continuous collection of mutations of the world. In these cubes fit all the images of cyclical processes of metamorphosis, frequent (which we often fail to value), irreversible processes that we observe or induce, but also unique moments in Human history.


These metamorphoses are delimited by the space of time defined by the realization of 9 images. The time span can range from a few seconds to several hours, days, months or years.


One cube, 27 cubes, 729 cubes, 19.683 cubes, 531.441 cubes, millions of cubes, ...

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These images, registered and gathered in a world in imminent collapse, will be deposited in different places on planet Earth.

A duplicate of all cubes will be sent to space, as a "time capsule", similar to the Golden Record included aboard of Voyager probes.


To serve as memory to possible survivors of our species or for any other extraterrestrial being that might have the ability to see.

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Chronos Cube is part of Voyager Ø, an artistic mission that aims to travel the Earth to record, collect and archive sequences of our collapsing world.

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Henrique Frazão is a portuguese artist and climate activist.


The fear of amnesia led him, from an early age, to want to record and keep much of what he saw, learned, thought and felt. Thus photography played an increasingly role, being used as a medium to immortalize concepts.


Since 2017, he has been developing a time capsule where he intends to exhaustively archive sequentially recorded images. The clash with data from climate science, in 2018, made him see this project with an even greater urgency. In recent years he has been preparing an ambitious project called Voyager Ø which was launched at Burning Man 2023.


The world as we know will disappear in a few decades.

Let some memory remain.

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