“Eclipse, from the Celestial Event series.”
Eclipse, from the Celestial Event series.
(SKU. 14511)
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Date
2025 -
Technique
backlight mounted lenticular printing -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 40 x 40 x 5 cm -
Edition
20 + 3PA -
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In "Eclipse" (2025), from the "Celestial Event" series, artist Felippe Moraes presents a pulsating circle of light and shadow. The lenticular impression on backlight reveals the slow approach between the Moon and the Sun, until the moment when the larger star is obscured and the day recedes for a few minutes. This rare coincidence only occurs in our sky because the size and distance of the two bodies obey improbable proportions, allowing a precise fit that is not found anywhere else in the known Universe. Even elucidated by science, the event still provokes a primordial awe, as if opening a rift between the visible and the invisible.
The work is completed when the observer's body enters orbit around it. As one moves through the piece, the sequence of images seems to gain movement, like a phenomenon activated by the human presence itself. The person becomes a satellite, a mass in motion that reorganizes the relationship between the spheres. Thus, each passage before the work reinscribes the event, established by the complicity between body and image, as if the observer were participating in the celestial architecture itself. A perpetual eclipse.
Included in the "Celestial Event" series, this work comprises a collection of videos, photographs, drawings, and paintings that explore the ways in which the artist relates to the stars. Between capturing sunlight, channeling it, and transforming it, a poetics emerges that connects human gesture to astronomical grandeur, bringing the infinitely vast to the intimate scale of the beholder.
Biography
Felipe Moraes
Felippe Moraes is an artist, researcher, and independent curator since 2009. He holds a Master's degree from the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, and his research investigates the epistemology of reason and its relationships with spirituality, mythology, and ancestry as possibilities for the re-enchantment of the world.
Among her most recent solo exhibitions, “Solfejo” (2025) at Caixa Cultural Curitiba stands out, a presentation that expands on her investigations into language, rhythm, and sensory experience. She also presented “Ovo Cósmico” (2023-24) at Galeria Verve and “Samba Exaltação” (2021), a series of neon signs with quotations from Brazilian songs presented as an urban intervention in Vale do Anhangabaú, São Paulo, and also exhibited at MAC-Niterói and the Museu de Arte do Rio. In 2021, she presented “Samba da Luz” at the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade and Estação da Luz.
In 2019, she exhibited “Solfejo” at the FIESP Cultural Center and “LUZIA” at the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. Previously, she held solo exhibitions such as “Imensurável” (2018) at Caixa Cultural Fortaleza; “Proporción” (2018) at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC) in Montevideo; “Cosmografia” (2017) and “Ordem” (2014), both at Baró Galeria in São Paulo; and “Progressão” (2016) at MAC-Niterói.
He is the author of the public works “Monumento ao Horizonte” (2016), in Niterói, and “Monumento a Euclides” (2017), in Romania. His work is part of collections such as those of the Museu de Arte do Rio, MAM-SP, MACRS, MAC-Niterói and CCSP.
Representative galleries
Verve Gallery , São Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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2019 | Centro Cultural FIESP - Solfejo (curadoria de Julia Lima)
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2019 | Centro Cultural FIESP - Solfejo (curadoria de Julia Lima)
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2021 | Estação da Luz - Samba de Luz 3
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"Ovo Cósmico" | 2023/24 | Verve Galeria, São Paulo
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2018 | Caixa Cultural de Fortaleza - Imensurável (curadoria de Alexandre Sá)
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2016 | Permanente - Caminho Niemeyer - Monumento ao Horizonte
