Much Closer to the Sun 2025

The installation explores the emotional and physiological non-figurative dramaturgy of looking into the sun. During a very slow and meditative pictorial process, the very strong orange colours on the monolithic 2.8x2.8 m alternately show the process of looking into the sun, of glaring, and the exposure of looking into the sun through the camera, i.e. the lens flare phenomenon. The strong orange colours also give a sense of heat in addition to a sense of light. The work also incorporates an exciting neurological aspect to the optical phenomenon, the so-called curving squares illusion, by which the square space is transformed into a curved space, further exploring the theme of the curving horizon of the sunset feeling. Also some other neurological illusion is build in the lighting, including concave and convex, and flickering light. Among other things, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World and Csontváry’s philosophy of the “path of the sun” influenced the artist in the creation of this work.