A material poetics, Sensible Suns is rooted in a physics experiment, its mechanisms witness earlier investigations in kinesis–an organism’s movement responding to an external stimulus, and the potential of physics becoming art, becoming specter-spectral, becoming an algorithm in its own right. The work combines various hard and soft materials with which strategies of fragmentation are intensified and pushed; staging a rotating environment with various components that interact across and through each other: a playful, intrinsic coming together of machine and motions, refractions, illuminations and color hues, on one hand –a revival of histories and narratives of poetic machinic life on the other hand. As a meta-machine Sensible Suns creates its own rationale, pointing to new experiential spaces as of yet unexplored, and at the periphery of vision.
Sensible Suns, 2025
Acrylic glass, polarization films, steel, aluminium, motors, LED light
90 x 68 x 45cm
Photo: CHROMA © Rosa Barba
Sensible Suns, 2025 has been on display at the following locations:
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2025