Absent Sky
Noor Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2023
Curated by Jérôme Sans and Pedro Alonzo
Commissioned by RCRC for Noor Riyadh 2023. Technology by Dr. Benjamin Panreck. Music by FACESOUL. Installation support by Craft Group.
Absent Sky is an encounter with absence, a threshold where light and void converge. A black expanse hovers, neither fixed nor finite, dissolving edges, unmooring perception. Space is not empty but in flux: shifting, bending, folding into itself. Darkness ceases to be absence; it becomes movement, presence, a force that draws itself into being.
Here, form is ephemeral, light is porous, and the unseen asserts itself. Absent Sky does not define but unfolds: a breath, a rupture, a pulse of the infinite.