Drexciya was an electronic music duo from Detroit, consisting of Gerald Donald and the late James Stinson. Starting in the early 1990s, they developed a unique sound of dark and mechanical techno imbued with aquatic noises, bringing to life the origin myth of Drexciya. Donald and Stinson imagined an underwater world in the depths of the Atlantic, where pregnant enslaved women thrown overboard during the Middle Passage of the Transatlantic Slave Trade gave birth to a hybrid people able to breathe and live underwater.

At Space OneZ, four maps from Drexciya’s 1997 compilation The Quest reimagine the migratory routes that traverse the Atlantic within the Drexciyan universe. Following a route imposed by the slave trade, this journey intertwines with Detroit techno and a speculative "Journey Home" set in the future.

These maps are presented alongside original artwork from Neptune’s Lair, in which Abu Qadim Haqq, a Detroit-based visual artist and illustrator, brought the Drexciyan world graphically to life. They feature imaginary beings such as the Drexciyan Cruiser, modified and hybridised squids; Drexciyan Warriors and the Bubble Metropolis they inhabit. Printed large-scale and suspended from Space OneZ’s sea-salt eroded structure, this nautical Afrofuturist saga reminds us of techno music’s Black origins and how its political and cultural foundations have too often been appropriated, depoliticised, and detached from the communities that gave rise to it.