Felippe Moraes
Eclipse, 2025
Série Evento Celestial (Celestial Event) series
Lenticular print mounted on backlight
40 × 40 × 5 cm
Edition of 20 + 3 AP
Available at Carbono Galeria

In Eclipse (2025), from the series Evento Celestial (Celestial Event), artist Felippe Moraes presents a pulsing circle of light and shadow that evokes one of the most striking phenomena in astronomy: the solar eclipse.

The lenticular print, mounted on backlight, reveals the slow approach between Moon and Sun. Gradually, the two celestial discs align until the moment the larger body is concealed and daylight seems to withdraw for a few minutes.

This rare phenomenon happens on Earth only because the apparent size of the Moon and the Sun is nearly identical when observed from our planet. Although the Sun is far larger, it is also far more distant, creating a coincidence of proportions that allows a precise fit between the two bodies. This singular configuration has not been observed anywhere else in the known universe.

Even when fully explained by science, the eclipse continues to provoke a primordial sense of awe. For a few minutes, the everyday rhythm of light is suspended, and the sky reveals a liminal dimension, as if a rift had opened between the visible and the invisible.