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Opening | Exhibition Here Comes the Sun: Art, Energy and Natural Intelligence

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We have built systems of extraordinary complexity to predict, control, and optimize our world. Artificial intelligence, we are told, will solve our greatest challenges. Yet, the smarter our machines become, the more we seem to forget the oldest forms of intelligence: that of the sun, constantly distributing its energy for billions of years, and that of marine microorganisms, perfecting their light architectures. Intelligence is not a human invention.

It also exists within human communities when they choose cooperation over competition, when they dare to imagine new possibilities together. Imagination is the distinctly human faculty that allows us to understand through speculative leaps, empathy, and creativity.

The three works in this exhibition explore these entanglements. Through the visual languages of cinema—narrative, editing, the power of the moving image—they activate our imagination and make visible the invisible intelligences that sustain life on this planet.

Alice Bucknell projects us into "Staring at the Sun," a near future where geoengineering has become our last gamble with planetary systems. The film maps the territory where technological intervention meets ecological consequences, where human vanity clashes with the complexity of climate systems.

"Solar Protocol" by the collective of the same name, managed by Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella, demonstrates that a solar-powered internet is possible. This work reveals that technology is never merely technical: it functions only thanks to a global network of volunteers. The system is intentionally fragile, dependent on human care and solar cycles.

In "Solar panels" ("Radiolaria series") by James Bridle, the silica skeletons of radiolarians are superimposed onto solar panels. This visual encounter is a revelation: evolution is the most sophisticated research program on Earth.

These works broaden the scope of what we can imagine. They show us that innovation does not mean domination, that technology can integrate into ecological and social systems, and that the intelligence we need is already here—in the sunlight, in microorganisms, in communities working together. It is up to us to learn to listen, to participate, and to be guided by the intelligences that surround us!

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