Electric sun
Electric Sun is a photographic exploration of the night-scapes and the daily lit environment in which the blurred boundary between technosphere and biosphere, creates alternative realities. The project sees the electric source as the fuel for new rituals.
Photography Jessica Bizzoni
We All Fear the Dark, 2018
The discovery of fire was power over darkness. The activities of man were no longer bounded by sunrise and sunset. The invention of electric light and lightbulb stroked other independence for the comfort of humankind. Electric light was the vanguard, means, goal, and emblem of the colonisation of the public sphere. The man-made source is more effective than the Sun, and it changed the cultural connotation of day and night. With it, it expands the day and creates a new temporal space in the night. The lit darkness is the place for other activities and for other creatures attracted to the Electric Sun.
Electric Sun explores the lit environment and looks at the different uses of electrical light. The project wants to see electrical light as an omnipresent source. The omnipresence of light becomes an element of second nature. With this work, the artists endeavour to turn our perception of reality and fiction upside down. As a result, the project developed in elevating the technology into its potential, applying lighting into unused context. The luminous phenomena become something to hunt and to observe like tourists watching the Aurora. Who gain healing and rejuvenation from coloured irradiation, and others use it for growing the idealised fora.
Glowing Horizon, 2018
It’s Summer, at 750 meters of altitude. I’m 65 km from a City of 383.083 individuals. The coast is on the other side. This place is the darkest point on the map. It is impossible to find a place darker than this in the area. And a glowing horizon surrounds me.
Man-Made Aurora, 2019
A man-made Aurora is an environmental human intervention. Its glow fascinates me. It is a newbie phenomenon in this technological era, it is so attractive that people gather to observe it. Its specific time location make it easy to be found, but it’s never constant. The glow always surprises me.
Electric Sunrise, 2018
The fleeting sunrise is controlled by the power of a switch. It is bright and it comes from any location. Greenhouses are shooting lights all around me. Immaterial clouds reflects of a yellow-pinkish colour and it reflected into the sky.
“The omnipresence of light becomes an element of second nature.”
Idealised Flora, 2018
Somewhere else, days nor flora are touched by the Sun. Nature is not the same as we know it in the outdoors. Leafy greens appear and taste the same. It grows in a system of plumbing that perpetually moves water and air. Efficiency can be heard. It is a humming, a deaf noise that fills the controlled chamber. Cold aluminium shelves in an organised grid contrast the dark wavy leaves. Green lettuce is growing suspended on a white plane. No soil, but freshwater is sprayed on the pearly roots. I have no perception of the spatial dimension in this place. The combination of different LEDs sources produces a bright electric pink. Leafy greens is lit 16 hours each day for 14 days to then seeing no nights until harvested. The recipe of light is a more effective Sun.
Untitled, 2018
Dream for the Outdoors, 2018
A question still in my mind. If light technology is used for growing better and faster fruits and vegetables, Can I grow a flourishing outdoor garden, using indoor light recipe?
Photorejuvenating Me, 2019
Magic Runner, 2021
Window open and light on at night 02, 2018
Nocturnal Fauna, 2019
Someone Thought Stars Were Not Enough, 2020
Lighting Poverty or a Map of the Light Pollution? Night satellite images and night World Maps are commonly used as a symbol for developed and industrialised Countries. What I do not understand is why, this symbol is not seen for a map of light pollution when this century have a more keen eye on environmental issues. But instead those images are the representation of the country welfare when used as backdrop during European Evening News broadcasts.
With Electric Sun, Jessica is been awarded as Talent of the Year 2019 from the Independent Photographer, Young Photographer 18 from AiR ORTE Austria, and Emerging Photographer 2018 EMOP Berlin. Part of the project is been exhibited at Fotografica 18, European Month of Photography Berlin 18, Si Fest OFF #10 among others. The project was presented at the Kosovo Architecture Festival 19 with a lecture and a workshop. Selected for the Still Young Gallery in Milan during the Si Fest 2019. Electric Sun participated in the 40th edition of the Nederland Film Festival in 2020.
About Jessica
Jessica Bizzoni (b. 1990) is an interdisciplinary designer and photographer, graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven and at the Royal Academy of Fine Art of Antwerp. Her research practice is active in the fields of environment, technology and experimental arts. Bizzoni investigates environmental contexts that reflect the contemporary behaviours of everyday life. Some of Bizzoni’s works are part of permanent and private collections of art museums including the Benaki Museum in Athens, the Archive of the Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst in Bremen, Library of Architecture Foundation Kosovo.
To see more of her work, visit her website or follow her on Instagram
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