Vortex
—2025–ongoing
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[Installation shot at NeoGeo, Arco 2025]
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VORTEX turns sunlight toward the unseen interior of Icelandic hydrothermal volcanoes. Using heliography—an early photographic process in which images are produced through solar exposure—the work paradoxically employs light to register submerged environments that exist in near-total darkness.
Printed on aluminium plates treated with thermochromic patinas, the surfaces respond continuously to ambient light, shifting in colour according to the intensity and spectral quality of the day. Each piece functions as a living atmospheric register, linking exterior conditions to an inaccessible geological interior.
Responsive to the sun’s changing position and frequencies, no two states can be repeated. The image remains unstable: part photograph, part event, suspended between chemistry, alchemy and apparition.
These works operate as thresholds to the abyss—zones of transformation where the solid becomes volatile, and where ancient light gives form to landscapes otherwise hidden from vision.