ARA SOLIS

BRIEF GLOSSARY OF  USEFUL NEOMYTHOLOGIES

work in progress

Ara Solis is an altar.
It's a set of stones
overlapping in equilibrium for millennia.
It's Louis XIV, the Sun. 
No.
Ara Solis is not the sun.
Ara Solis is Adilia Lopes.

Ara Solis is a future to come,
at the same time as it is a gothic past.
Flamboyant.
It's the convent where you can still read ‘Scivias’
and have a cup of tea with Hildegarda von Bingen.
Ara Solis is green.
Yes, Ara Solis is definitely green.
It is light and shadow
and all the life and death contained therein.

Ara Solis is a sculpture.
No.
Ara Solis is the space between the sculpture
and everything else.
No.
Ara Solis is the air that circulates within that space.
No, no.  
Ara Solis is what can happen inside the air
circulating in that space.
Yes.
Between us.
It's invisible, but it can be sensed.

Ara Solis is the end of the world.
It's an endless place
where we've already arrived
without knowing it.








Artistic Direction, Writing an Publication
Sara Vieira Marques