Eclipse

This work considers emotional attachment not as a feeling, but as a structure.

The distance between individuals is not necessarily spatial. While geography can be collapsed, other conditions, such as sexuality, social position, family structures, and personal histories, remain fixed. These conditions produce a form of structural impossibility in which a relationship persists without the possibility of resolution.

Within such a structure, attachment does not dissolve. Instead, it sustains itself through repetition, forming an ongoing loop that resists closure. What appears as a connection is inseparable from constraint; what stabilizes also restricts.

The installation translates this condition into space.

A human-scale structure defines a confined interior that the viewer may enter. Inside, a luminous sphere evokes the moon, its light gradually shifting in intensity. As the viewer occupies the space, their body obstructs the light, producing an eclipse.

The viewer is not positioned as an observer, but as a participant. Their presence completes the work.

The eclipse does not signify disappearance, but alignment: a moment in which one body obscures another.

In this alignment, the work proposes that individuals are not only shaped by the structures they inhabit but are also implicated in sustaining them.

Others leave traces on the body, visible, temporary. What he left is not on the surface; it remains somewhere less visible, but far more difficult to remove.

I have never stopped moving through different relationships. At some point, it began to resemble the Ship of Theseus. Everything changes, yet something continues. I am not the same, but I am not entirely different either.

This work, for him and me, echoes The Mature Age for Rodin and Camille Claudel. A gesture to acknowledge his decision and the life he has chosen to inhabit, while leaving with what cannot be undone.

I think it is time to say goodbye, even if I am not ready.
Good luck my luk.