All That Glitters Is Not Everlasting

“Since the advent of artificial light, the fragile balance between clarity and obscurity has been upset, blurring the boundary between reality and illusion.

While solar energy, the primal source of all life and of visibility, imposes its cyclical rhythm of appearance and disappearance, of growth and decline, artificial light embodies the human desire to extend the day, to suspend time and to expand space, often under the guise of a carefully crafted ideology.

In this research, I am exploring the intimate and ambiguous relationship between humanity and energy. Invisible machines continue their silent respiration in landscapes shaped by human hands. Cold light redraws the horizon, while the sun reveals its dual nature: both generative and destructive. These images do not unfold as narrative; rather, they emerge as a mirror of insatiable desires for extraction, transformation and overload, inviting a meditation on the flows and excesses that permeate our age.

Out of this tension between the natural and the artificial arises the image of a “temple of energy.” Yet one must ask: does it mark the threshold of a new creative impulse, or the brink of irreversible collapse?”

– JINGDI

JINGDI (China) is currently in residence as part of the 2-12 programme