heartbreak

Cette œuvre est conçue pour être écoutée — activer le son

This work is designed to be heard — activate sound

Heartbreak (distant star), 2019

Video collage, infinite loop · Sound: pulsar PSR-B0329-54 (NASA) · Variable duration


The artist’s heartbeat enters into resonance with a pulsar signal captured by NASA. Two radically different phenomena — in scale, in nature, in distance — pulse according to the same rhythmic structure. This is not a metaphor: it is a demonstration that the same organisational logic traverses the living and the cosmic. As subject and object are one in the act of observation, body and universe are one in rhythm.

Pulsar (Astronomy) — A rapidly rotating neutron star emitting radio waves at regular intervals. It is what remains of a supermassive star after its explosion as a hypernova, supernova, or nova.