Sunkissed
Installation / Research
Multi channel video / digital prints and manual enlargements / steel frames / volcanic rocks / steel structure / copper plates / various objects / biologically altered digital prints 2022 - 2025
The work cycle focuses on techno-utopian ideas, according to which humans could, theoretically, control the global climate system. It is stated that it would be possible to imitate the activity of volcanoes and thus reduce climate warming. One of the most scientifically studied processes describes the spraying of large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere, where they would scatter the sun’s radiation and thereby reduce the amount of energy reaching the earth’s surface.
I have broken such proposals into parts, then expanded them and worked with the locations and processes referred to in them: the stratosphere, volcanic areas in southern Italy, and biological and technical systems.
In Sunkissed, I have attempted to think about the scope of such process and the intricacies of biological and geological relationships. I am interested in questions like: What can be perceived and understood through visibility? How visual simplicity fails to convey the complexity of such sets of relationships? Or how to think of inconceivable scales – some too grand and some too small?
The work was exhibited in solo show Sunkissed in Tartu Art House, Estonia, 2025
