Defeat under the Sun, 2025

In the 1913 Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, painting transitioned from neo-primitivism to abstraction. Capturing the sun was an attempt to destroy monistic systems like time and origin. So what happened to the sun, who was accused of the ‘wrong crime’? The sun did not remain captured.

Defeat under the Sun is a portrait — and a landscape — of the sun resisting in the arms of the Futurists. The energy of the sun escapes, permeates modern art, dazzles our vision. The abstraction of images is thwarted, the visualisation of invisibles fails, and the future is falsified. The sun reclaims victory at the speed of 299,792,458 m/s.