“Black Sun” is a video created exclusively from material collected during long-distance video conversations with my family.
This project is part of an investigation examining my personal experience within a global migratory flow and how I maintain family ties. The work interrogates how contemporary media have conditioned and redefined human relationships, our bond with nature, and our perception of reality from vast distances.
As Norbert Hillaire (2013) posits, “Is it conceivable that faced with a fake, a copy, we might have the same feelings as before an original? If that were the case, then the whole paradigm of modernity would be in the process of being rewritten before our eyes…”
Digital communication has transformed binary code into a metaphor for the world, an architectural structure where much human interaction resides. It’s a space of experiences and a generator of infinitely reproducible encounters, communicated by light, a transmitter of messages between two universes.
The image quality and sound, along with accidents and interruptions in information transmission and somatic effects influenced by natural phenomena, are integral to the aesthetics of these “planes of existence.” The outcome of “Black Sun” isn’t intended as a work with a predefined aesthetic purpose; rather, it functions as a document testifying to this occurrence.
