PRINCIPLES
PERPETUAL MOTION
Where does the force originate?
From the centre?
From the beams themselves?
From the point where they converge?
Or from their extremities, where tension appears to extend beyond the limits of the structure?
The more closely one observes the system, the more difficult it becomes to identify a single source.
Within Solaris, force cannot be reduced to a single origin.
In Solaris, energy propagates through radial structures while remaining fully contained within them.
Each beam holds opposing forces in tension, extending toward infinity while remaining unified.
The orbital ring gathers, condenses and holds this energy, allowing perpetual motion to emerge from reciprocity rather than from a single source.
A visual grammar derived from a matrix drawing, composed of abstract temporal units and encoded trajectories.
WITHIN SOLARIS
Beam
Propagation ⟷ Tension
Ring
Motion ⟷ Cohesion
System
Infinity ⟷ Containment
Energy continuously tends toward infinity while remaining fully contained within the structure.
It is from this dynamic equilibrium that movement, transformation and encoded time emerge.
ABSTRACT TEMPORAL UNITS
Solaris develops an encoded language composed of abstract temporal units.
Vectorised through light, each beam, segment and internal mark becomes simultaneously a force, a sign and a temporal unit.
Time is not measured chronologically; it is structured, transmitted and perceived through motion, tension and transformation.
Critical Mass, 2026
SOLARIS 01 & DIGITAL TWIN
These principles were first articulated in Solaris 01 (2014–2015).
In this configuration, each orbital unit was organised around its own centre, generating its own field of rotation.
Solaris D01A and D01B were conceived simultaneously as two manifestations of the same system. While the physical work holds the movement in a state of stillness, its digital counterpart reveals the internal dynamics and mechanisms of motion embedded within it.
Together, they establish an exploration of perpetual motion through the visualisation and materialisation of energy. Developed using the digital technologies available at the time, Solaris 01 is anchored in the historical context of its creation, embodying a moment when emerging technologies first made it possible for physical and digital forms to coexist within the same work.
Solaris D01A, 2014–2015
Foundational work of the Solaris system. Three autonomous rotational units organised around a central source.
Physical work ⟷ Digital Twin
TOWARD DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Later works distribute these forces across increasingly complex configurations, revealing new relationships,
levels of organisation and scales of observation.
In D16, each component contributes to a living system in which balance and instability coexist.
The work reveals a field of simultaneous interactions where no single source of energy can be isolated.
Movement, transformation and encoded time emerge from the continuous reciprocity of the whole.
ORIGIN
Beyond its structures and dynamics, Solaris is an attempt to give form to the invisible.
Not to explain origin, but to approach it.
Not as a point, but as a living field of relationships illuminated by the light of consciousness.