The Sun´s Desire to Touch (II)

2021, Tijuana

The Sun’s Desire to Touch (II), is set on a fragile terrain on the outskirts of Tijuana—one of the last conservation-nominated sites within a rapidly urbanizing city. It is a landscape marked by ecological vulnerability and personal memory, shaped by both childhood experience and the proximity of disappearance. The installation brings together video, solar-powered kinetic elements, ceramics, endemic vegetation, and found objects, forming a shifting spatial arrangement rooted in the site itself. Solar cells placed on the terrain collect sunlight and store it in batteries, gathering the sun as material energy. This stored energy activates fragile kinetic sculptures that move small fragments of endemic plants from the same site where the light was collected.

Directed and Edited : Eréndira Violeta González, Camara: Yadira Gutierrez.