Presences from the sun

Caline Aoun

Presences from the sun is an installation that proposes to see the ruins as sundials and markers of time, using mirrors inscribed with short sentences and placed around the temple. Only at a specific time of the day, when the sun hits the mirror, will we be able to see the reflection of the inscription on the surface of the temple. As the day the passes, some light reflections will be waned, others will be stronger, hourly, capturing the passage of time through shadows, the movement of the sun produced over the course of the installation, and also notions of cycles, renewal, and rebirth.

Date: 2022
Location: Hosn Niha, Beqaa
Medium: Installation
Material: N/A
Section: Contemporary
Duration: Temporary
Tags: Site-specific intervention
   
Framework: Scratch the surface, touch the sun
Authorizations: Ministry of Culture, DGA
Commissioner: TAP