Becoming Aerosolar / Free Flight, 2015
The work is a solar sculpture, which flies by capturing the short waves of the sun during the day, and infrared waves from the Earth at night. For Saraceno, the floating “monument” points toward a new way of inhabiting Earth, an imagined, alternative future in which civilization is truly solar powered, but also liberated from Earth’s surface to become airborne; a society held, propelled and continually re-cohered by the intensities of the sun-Earth-air relation; a world of flying solar sculptures aggregating like clouds; a world not of flight paths but of nomadic journeys.
Photo © Johannes Stroll