Solar

As the sun sets on our Sun/Shade exhibition, The Bentway presents SOLAR, a new large-scale light installation by Italian artist Quayola and commissioned in partnership with Videocittà, Rome’s celebrated festival of video and digital culture. The work is guided by a robotic arm, sweeping slowly across the night sky, guiding hundreds of synchronized beams in a mesmerizing dance of light and shadow. Presented as a simulated sunset unfolding in real time, SOLAR offers an alternate way of experiencing the city - slowed down, bathed in colour, and suspended between nature and technology. Presented beneath the Gardiner Expressway, where shade is constant, this radiant new work reminds us of the sun’s power, how light shapes our sense of time and place, and that every shadow has its source.

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