CELESTE

There are many changes derived from the digital revolution, but there are some that seem not yet to have been incorporated into the geopolitical and social sphere.

The definition of geographical borders has conditioned our behaviours, cultures, aesthetics, violence and pasts, but in the 21st century and with unprecedented hyperconnectivity, we continue to understand the border as an invisible line that has an incredible weight in our social and political decisions.
On the other hand, these borders are being defined by climate change and its geographical impositions through the concept of "quality of life" or "habitable zones" on our planet, an issue that generates a new conflict of interests to individually preserve our lives.

From a positivist point of view, the artist Solimán López proposes a new space of common creation, universal, transparent but with key conceptual implications to understand and accept the new concepts of frontiers and the geopolitical implications derived from the Anthropocene.

CELESTE is configured as a "nature-machine-human" interface that unfolds through the moving image. 
In keeping with the past of the representation of nature (in artists such as Friedrich or Turner), in which the artist observed incessantly the changes produced by the passage of time, climate and light, the artist has designed an energetically autonomous beacon that documents the sky relentlessly through photographic captures of the celestial vault.

These images or decisive moments of the sky (Cartier Bresson) are analysed by an algorithm that extracts different colours (pixels) from the image of different skies around the world and synthesises them in a new digital interface that, like a kaleidoscope, incorporates these values (digital data) and makes them visible in real time.


In this way, CELESTE proposes an audiovisual experience and a digital interface that transports us from our space and time to a "non-place" created digitally and that breaks with great cont