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For ‘Solaris’, sand gathered at the Atacama Desert was first melted becoming glass. This glass was then turned into photographic lenses. These ‘desert eyes’ were brought back to the Atacama desert and used to photograph its landscape.
For ‘Solaris’, sand gathered at the Atacama Desert was first melted becoming glass. This glass was then turned into photographic lenses. These ‘desert eyes’ were brought back to the Atacama desert and used to photograph its landscape.
The captured images go beyond representing the landscape; in ‘Solaris’, the desert is an observing subject rather than a passive object to be looked at. ‘Solaris’ takes its inspiration from the sci-fi classic of the same title, by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, which explored a potential type of intelligence that does not derive from a brain, but, rather, from the sea of a distant planet called ‘Solaris’.
SOLARIS (detail) One of the photographs taken at the desert through the lens made of the same desert’s sand. The ecological traces of the landscape, which are present as the desert sand was not purified at the time when it was melted becoming glass, distorts the resulting images.
