Much closer to the sun

10. May 2025. – 08. June
MegnyitóOpening: May 9, 2025, 6:00 pm
MegnyitjákRemarks by: Áfrány Gábor, Knakker Balázs

The installation at Fixir Gallery presents an emotional and physiological non-figurative dramaturgy of looking at the sun inside an artificially created solar array. During the subtly changing, slow, meditative pictorial process in the monolithic spatial construction, the strong orange colours alternately show the process of looking into the sun, of being blinded, and the artificial exposure of looking into the sun through the camera, the bending of digital space, the phenomenon of light perception caused by technical media.

In addition to the sensation of light, the intense orange colours also evoke a sensation of heat and stimulate the process of vision through various optical phenomena, thus humanising the inherently synthetic visual world of the environment in synthetic space through human perceptions and hallucinatory experiences.

Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” and Csontváry’s philosophy of the solar journey, among others, were also influences on the creation of this work. The music for the ever-present chill space installation was composed by Gergely Álmos.