Felippe Moraes
Evento Celestial (Celestial Event), 2020
HD Video Stereo – B&W
5′

The video Evento Celestial (Celestial Event, 2020), by Felippe Moraes, presents the creation of abstract forms produced by the direct manipulation of sunlight through a convex lens. By concentrating and shifting the light, the hand holding the object creates movements that evoke fundamental astronomical phenomena, such as eclipses, solstices and equinoxes.

The camera records these luminous transformations, capturing the interaction between the lens, the human gesture and the sun. In this process, a kind of optical choreography forms, in which light condenses, expands and fragments into shifting visual patterns.

The work turns a natural phenomenon, the incidence of sunlight, into artistic matter. Through a simple gesture, the action brings the human body closer to cosmic dynamics that normally unfold on far greater scales.

The video introduces an additional layer of visual mediation. The image captured by the camera creates a superimposition between different optical systems: the convex lens manipulated by the hand and the lens of the camera itself.

This doubling of devices generates a metalinguistic operation in which the image comes to reflect on its own construction. As light passes through these successive filters, the forms are distorted, magnified and transformed into abstract fields of luminosity.

The result is a visual universe in constant mutation, in which small variations of movement produce new configurations of light and shadow.

By using sunlight directly as raw material, the work establishes a physical relationship between human gesture and the cosmos.

The artist manipulates a phenomenon that belongs to an astronomical scale and translates it into an immediate perceptual experience. In this way, Evento Celestial suggests a symbolic expansion of human presence within the universe.

The body, the lens and the light become parts of a single system in motion, bringing cosmic phenomena into an intimate, sensory scale.

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