Sunny Day, 2017

Mylar transparent and metalized, tape, pump with overpressure release valve, polyester rope, net, metal ring

The inflatable structures that make up the installation communicate a new way of flying, one that relies only on the difference in temperature between inside and outside the sculpture, heated only by the sun and the infrared radiation of the Earth. Floating like this provides an alternative to the linear vector flight of propulsion technology, replacing it with sympoetic choreography. 

Steps – Leaps – Footprint, 2016 (on the wall; left)

Inkjet print, diptych two photographic prints mounted on dibond and framed separately

The well-known documentary photo from 1969 shows the footprint that Buzz Aldrin, the American astronaut, left on the surface of Moon. The launching of space missions could be understood as a maximum of air mobility that in turn leaves its own footprint, and pushes the atmospheric changes of the planet. The peculiar photograph from White Sands depicts the diametrically opposite: an individual being lifted by cosmic forces, the sun ray beams that heated D-O AEC Aerocene sculpture.

Eclipse of Aerocene Explorer, 2016 (on the wall; right)

Inkjet print

The photograph was taken during the performance at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia in January 2016, during Tomás Saraceno’s artistic expedition. Salar de Uyuni salt flat is estimated to be the biggest lithium depository in Earth. Atop of the Uyuni salt crust, the Aerocene sculptures floated proposing to keep the natural resources in the ground, and to relate to energy cycles differently: harnessing Sun and Earth as the sole batteries.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti