Remoteness of Light was an art-research project developed in collaboration and co-authorship with Bárbara Bielitz, with the aim of reflecting on the notions of darkness, sunlight, and the nature of design from a South perspective. Presented at the Dynamics of Darkness in the North Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, in February 2015, the project asked about the role of technical developments such as the camera obscura in the development of humans’ understanding of our relation with the planet and the cosmos, and, thus, in the emergence of our attachment to certain territories and the establishment of our situation as human beings. Following the same path, the project was also a reflection on how modern design practices are historically and epistemologically linked to this primal relation with the planet and the cosmos, and that, therefore, they always operate as an enclosed simulacrum of our cosmological nature.
