The energy released during nuclear fusion inside the Sun and radiated into outer space is essential for most terrestrial beings and greatly influences the phenomena of life on Earth. Sun_Stop pays tribute to one of the significant figures of Russian cosmism, the scientist and thinker A.L. Chizhevsky, born in 1897, who is known as the founder of heliobiology. He was the first to attempt to prove with his research that biological and social life processes on Earth are related to solar activity.

In Fishkin’s continuous, interconnected videos the Sun occupies approximately the same position in the sky (directly above the horizon, just before it sets). The cameras are located in different points on the Earth, allowing the broadcast to be switched from one place to the next every half hour so that the Sun is ‘always in the same place’.

Barnabás Bencsik