CUMULUS
KIENESOYO, CUMULUS, 2026. Real-time 3D installation, two 45-inch screens, two computers, sound and real-time lighting.
CUMULUS is an installation with two 45-inch screens and two computers. The piece unfolds as a real-time 3D environment: the figure moves, colours oscillate randomly, and sound and light are activated as part of a sensitive atmosphere.
The work takes as its point of departure the suspended, thoughtful posture of Duerer’s Melencolia I, not as a literal citation but as a resonance: an archetypal image of the human being confronted with its own complexity. From this iconographic root emerges a cosmonaut, strange and familiar at once: a figure that does not represent a specific individual, but a shared condition.
The body appears assembled from ceramic fragments, broken surfaces and golden joints. Each piece embodies an episode, a trace, an alteration. Some refer to wounds, losses or zones of pain; others to moments of fullness, affection or expansion. What emerges is not a coherent identity, but a composite, contradictory subjectivity made of layers that never fully fit together.
Colour operates as an affective system. Blues indicate painful experiences, zones of density and events that have left a severe mark. Greens point to fertile memories, moments of light, calm or growth. These registers do not remain still: they activate through latencies, as if memory were breathing inside the character.
Around the cosmonaut gravitates a cloud of particles, a galaxy of floating matter that evokes both cosmic dust and the residues of experience. As in the formation of a planet or a star, identity appears here as a process of condensation: a form born from dispersion.