JULIA CARRILLO
LUZ INSTANTE
06.26.2021 – 09.19.2021
TIEMPOS LUMÍNICOS, 2021
I have spent several years chasing light, conceiving optical devices to apprehend it. In this process, I have been particularly interested in the dynamic drawings generated by the projections of sunlight throughout a day. With these obsessions in mind, I dedicated myself to think about how the devices that I build could evolve in a way that they became dynamic, that they involved movement. I imagined the idea of the moving lens and began to work with water as a medium for the transit of light.
Water has the ability to adapt to any form that contains it, that receives it. It is a fluid; colorless and shapeless matter and its fickleness allows light to organically change its path. I find water as a poetic matter and also the fact that a drop can sculpt it in a way that will be unrepeatable. With each fall, it directs the light at its own pace and accommodates itself in its container.
Tiempos lumínicos, is the result of this search process. The projections that flood the space respond to a geometric and optical study that determines the circular shape of the containing lens and the precise location of the drips. The artwork is activated by the falling drops of water that guide time rhythms and light rhythms and that, at the same time, activate the perceptual experience of space, unique in each drip.
