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HOMOS LUMINOSOS

The mystery of light reaching us from the far end of the universe has been inspiring my work since many years. Could light carry consciousness coming from other dimensions?

The exploration of “Presence and Absence” “Time and Evolution” emerged as essential threads while working with the medium of light. In 2003 I started using optic fibre, a light transmitting fibre mainly used for data transmission, and develop my own technic to sculpt light. In 2007 I created a family of ethereal light being: the “homos luminosos” (latin for man of light) made of constellations of light points carved in a mass of optic fibres. The “homos luminosos” stand at the threshold of time in a subtle disembodied “reality” made of pure light or information. 

The “homos luminosos” evoke both past and future ethereal presence. They suggest the presence of disembodied life, the presence of life despite the absence of physicality. “Can we imagine absence without feeling presence first?” Is there such a thing as pure presence, a presence that has always been there before all existence? Or is there a metaphysical “lack”, a fundamental emptiness since the origin, an absence of presence. In other words what came first presence or absence? Philosopher Derrida who reflected in depth on this question came up with the concept of “traces”: “marks of the absence of a presence, an always-already absent present”. 

Maybe the “homos luminosos” are made of traces? They invite us to reflect on the past and the traces of presence or absence left by humans once they abandon their physicality, as well as on the future of human kind at the dawn of the 21st century when technologies are about to shift us into a virtual disembodied trans-human experience.

This work has been featured in exhibitions, museums, festivals and art fairs around the world, including the Kinetica Museum London and the Museum of Quai Branly Paris in thematic exhibition Persona in 2016. Homos Luminosos are part of the collection of the Science Museum Dublin and have traveled Asia, Americas and Europe with the touring exhibition Illusion.
Explore the timeless dimensions of the “Homos Luminosos” family in the gallery below.

Akasha Head – Optic Fibre

Homos Luminosos Family – Kinetica Installation

Homo Luminosos – Fibre Optic

Homo Luminoso – Frequency Festival Installation

Homo Luminoso & Spiral – Time Smiles Installation

Homo Luminoso – Optic Fibre

Homo Luminoso – Frequency Festival Installation

Homo Luminoso Family

Seating Child Homo Luminoso

Time Smile Performance in Light Vortex

Man & Woman Homo Luminosos – Time Smile Installation

Akasha Head – Swarovski Beads


Soul Gathering – Light Box

Gestalt Heads – Reflective Aluminium Engraved

Infinity – Light Sculpture Fibre Optic

Life Cycle – Crystal & Optic Fibre Spiral

Homos Luminosos – Time Smile Performance

Child Homo Luminoso & Crystal Spirals – Optic Fibre

Homos Luminosos Family – Time Smile Installation

Child Homo Luminoso – Optic Fibre

Child Homo Luminoso – Optic Fibre


    Homos Luminosos – Reflective Engraved Aluminium – Wall Pieces


    THE CRYSTAL SPIDER

    “Over the palace of the god Indra a vast network of precious gems was hanging, so arranged that if you looked at one you saw all the others reflected in it.” From the Avatamsaka Sutra

    Threading crystal beads started my journey into the world of light. After an art residency in India in 1993 I started to use gemstones and crystals as art material. Light became both a medium and a subject of exploration, merging spiritual, philosophical and scientific mysteries. 

    Fascinated by the concept of the web of life and the net of the god Indra, a metaphor used to illustrate the interdependence and interpenetration of life in Buddhist philosophy, I created series of netted like objects combining crystals, gemstones and light.

    Galaxia – Crystal & Wire Sculpture

    Ladder of Light – Optic Fibre Crystal & Metal Sculpture

    I Ching Wheel – Optic Fibre Crystal Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

    Magnetic Attraction – Rose Quartz Crystal & Wire Sculpture

    Wave – Optic Fibre Crystal & Mixed Media Wall Light Sculpture

    Crystal Rain – Optic Fibre Sculpture

    Crystal Rain – Optic Fibre Sculpture

    Wave & Crystal Rain – Optic Fibre Sculptures

    I Ching Wheel – Optic Fibre Crystal Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

    Galaxia – Crystal & Wire Sculpture

    Crystal Spiral – Optic Fibre Sculpture

    Crystal Spiral – Optic Fibre Sculpture

    Crystal Spider Web – Crystal & Wire Sculpture

    Crystal Palace – Semi Precious Bead Curtain

    Crystal & Chain light

    Galaxia – Crystal & Wire Sculpture

    Crystal Rain – Optic Fibre Sculpture

    Metamorphosis – Optic Fibre & Mixed Media Sculpture

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