Instant Constellations is the title of a series of works I began in 2010. Each piece is a site-specific installation that recreates the celestial vault at a given place and time, made of hundreds of matchsticks forming a fragile architecture that could burn and vanish within seconds. Each match is a star, each star a possibility. These “potential portraits” materialize the visible sky into a personal map, interweaving space and time.
The ancient light of the stars reflects the fragility of human life and the short cycle of a match, inviting us to contemplate the infinite through the ephemeral. Time is a relative concept—it depends on the chosen frame of reference. Thus, the Big Bang is not a “beginning” in the past, but rather a “limit” in the space of possible configurations. We see stars that may no longer exist. But if what seems real is nothing more than a processing of information, then the question of time inevitably leads to the question of being. And the distance between physics and metaphysics gradually dissolves.