TEN NIGHTS THIS EVENING
A starry sky is also a time map: it shows the exact moment we live, never being the same. It means we can count time through the positions of the stars in the sky.
Ten videos show the making of ten different starry skies – each of them for a specific year. A starry sky is constructed by punching small holes on a black surface in the video. We can see the hand working on this representation of a night sky: each hole allows the backlight to shine and simulate a star in the sky.
TEN NIGHTS THIS EVENING Video installation at St. Egidien Church (Nuremberg, Germany) 180 min. Dimension: approximately 2000 x 800 cm 2017
The first sky will be from ten years ago, followed by the sky drawing of the following year, until we had the starry sky on the same night of the presentation at Die Blaue Nacht in May 2017.
Projecting a night sky on the ceiling of St. Egidien Church is a symbolic way to open up the roof. It is also a representation of time passage since each star’s configuration tells us about specific moments in History.
Video installation at St. Egidien Church, in Nuremberg (Germany), during Die Blaue Nacht 2017.