The Solar Biennale

SOLAR PUNK: NO LIGHT NO LIFE AND SOLAR RITUAL: A GIFT FOR THE SUN

In an inspiring collaboration between and first-year students explored what it means to live with the sun differently.

Through a speculative movement rooted in solar gravity, the project No Light No Life by Aart Schillings & Hongyang Zhangpoints makes a simple but urgent case: our wellbeing depends on natural light, and it is time we started designing our lives around it.

Solar Ritual by Cho Yeain & Ileana Rutigliano goes a step further, asking not just whether we are connected to the sun, but what kind of relationship we actually have with it. One based on extraction and efficiency, or one based on care and reciprocity?

SOLAR PUNK: SUN TEMPLE AND BODY FRIDGE LAB

In an inspiring collaboration between and first-year students explored what it means to live with the sun differently.

Set in 2100, Body Fridge Lab by Diana Kusyová & Yu-Hsuan Ko frames cooling as a social issue. When heat becomes extreme, staying comfortable becomes a privilege. Through DIY wearables and their circulation as online trends, the project exposes how extreme heat transforms comfort into a commodity, touching on social hierarchy, consumerism, and the fashion industry.

Set in 2070, Sun Temple by .na.mente and approaches the same future from a more intimate angle. What happens to human connection and daily life when the light we depend on forces us indoors? The installation sits with that loss, of sunlight, of each other, of something we never thought to protect.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

On this longest day of the year, we celebrate another commissioned project part of Soleil-s.

This project by Réflecteurs solaires is a poetic series of reflective devices that redirect natural sunlight from bright zones to shaded urban and interior spaces. Made from glass, ceramic, and metal, these subtle interventions reimagine how buildings can share light and interiors illuminate each other through sun reflections.

As part of today’s Summer Solstice, don’t miss the Fête du Solstice et de la Musique (check mudac’s calendar for events).