Andrea Sztojánovits (HU) was VJing at techno parties and has been working on real-time audiovisual installations since 2001, she got her Doctorate Degree in 2019 at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with her dissertation ‘VJing as a method’. Besides her creative work she was a senior lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Her main educational and research fields are visual music and art inspired by neuroscience with the focus on meditation/chill spaces and closed eye visions.

Gergely Álmos (HU) is an architect who won the European Prize for Architecture, his name might sound familiar in the field of music as well. As music composer and producer, coming from the Sonar Kollektiv label in Berlin, he is the creator of an internationally known music project mïus. Besides composing he is the art director and founder of the Budapest based music label Théque Records.

The installation explores the emotional and physiological non-figurative dramaturgy of looking into the sun. During a very slow and meditative pictorial process, the very strong orange colours on the monolithic 3x3 m alternately show the process of looking into the sun, of glaring, and the exposure of looking into the sun through the camera, i.e. the lens flare phenomenon.

The strong orange colours also give a sense of heat in addition to a sense of light. The work also incorporates an exciting neurological aspect to the optical phenomenon, the so-called curving squares illusion, by which the square space is transformed into a curved space, further exploring the theme of the curving horizon of the sunset feeling. Also some other neurological illusion is build in the lighting, including concave and convex, and flickering light.

The music of the installation is composed by Gergely Álmos.