Virtual Sun — in between 02-21, installation view

Virtual Sun — in between 02-21

Year
2022
Medium
Wood, electronics, LED, cable, PSU, aluminium, Fresnel lens, 250 Half White Diffusion
Dimensions
30 × 24 × 28 cm each (× 18)

Virtual Sun — in between 02-21 consists of eighteen modular light sculptures, each reconstructing sunlight through a 5000K LED calibrated to reproduce 98 percent of the visible solar spectrum and focused through Fresnel optics derived from lighthouse engineering and contemporary screen technologies. As viewers move through the installation, the luminous spheres shift in depth, scale, and apparent position.

Each module resembles a transport or storage crate. Artificial sunlight adopts the operational logic of logistics infrastructure: portable, stackable, transferable between sites, dependent on electrical supply and architectural conditions. The installation treats the elemental as distributable commodity.

The work reconfigures itself with each presentation. Different arrangements produce different spatial and symbolic orders: horizon line, vertical tower, circular formation, fragmented debris field. No fixed cosmology remains. The same technological substrate generates multiple systems of orientation.

The installation addresses a broader historical condition in which environmental experience is increasingly reconstructed through managed atmospheres, simulation technologies, and infrastructural mediation. Sunlight persists as reproducible service detached from planetary relation.

Daylight enters the supply chain.