We are pleased to announce that PCAI’s collection artist Angelo Plessas participates at the exhibition Seven times the color of the sun, at the North Norwegian Art Centre from October 5, 2025 until January 4, 2026.
The exhibition is the second chapter of Solar Kin, a long-term curatorial project that follows artistic explorations of post-carbon imaginaries in the context of the global transition from fossil fuels to renewables, particularly solar energy.
The exhibition takes as its point of departure a Mayan creation myth: after several unsuccessful attempts to craft humans from different materials, the gods shaped them from sunlight. The beings that emerged were described as “seven times the colour of the sun”. Radiant, skilled, and powerful, they placed themselves above other species and natural processes, as if the very light that gave them form had become a source of blindness rather than vision. The project draws on this image to consider humanity’s place and responsibility today.
Living and working between Athens and Kymi (Greece), Angelo Plessas creates rituals, systems, and experiences where technology, spirituality, and expanded forms of queerness meet. Since the early days of the internet—itself a site of myth and transformation—the artist has explored how the spiritual and the networked world mirror each other. His work draws from ancient cosmologies, folk traditions and cybernetic mythologies, blurring the borders between human and machine,virtual and material. Plessas composes rituals through code, weaves circuits of meaning, and invites all beings, human and non-human alike, into shared transmissions. The multimedia installation composed for this exhibition brings together the works Karma Dome (2019) and a collection of quilts, including the two new pieces Sole Solaris (2025). Rainbow Unit Ceremony (2025), conceived as the opening act of this show, is a guided meditation that channels solar energy as an active principle that animates all kinds of relations. Beginning from the eye, an organ of vision shaped by the exposure to sunlight, Plessas leads a multiscalar journey through the energy flows of our organs, from the molecular level up to a cosmic scale—as if our pulse already belonged to the sun.
Artists: Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Saodat Ismailova, Olof Marsja, Ina Otzko, Angelo Plessas, Alf Magne Salo
Curated by Adriana Alves and Vanina Saracino
More information here.
Image Credits: Angelo Plessas performing “Rainbow Unit Ceremony”(2025) as the opening act for the exhibition, Kjell Ove Storvik
Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4,10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17
