#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A new art object will now help you determine the time of day both in winter and summer. After all, in the Arctic, human light biorhythms are confused – the sun is not visible on the polar night, but there is a lot of it on the polar day. Biosun appeared on the façade of the Norilsk museum.
The semicircular arched window of the museum repeats the dynamics of the celestial body around the clock. The shades change smoothly – from pale yellow in a sleepy morning to energetic orange at noon. And in the evening the sun gets warmest – the red palette predominates.
As the museum reported, for the Norilsk sun they used special linear programmable lamps for architectural illumination with spots of different colors (different color temperatures), which give a combined glow.
The light art object was installed by the Moscow lighting design bureau Culture of Light. The designers worked as part of the museum’s PolArt residency program, and the project was supported by a grant from the Our Norilsk endowment fund.
The street installation became a large-scale continuation of artist Mila Mikhailova’s research project NorSvet, which she implemented at PolArt in 2022.
In the same year, it was shown at the first international biennale Art of the Future – among the selected Russian and foreign science art projects there were works by polar art residents.
Earlier, art facades with the townspeople’s birth stories appeared in the northern city, and for the 70th anniversary of the city, a mosaic panel The Sun of the Arctic was unveiled.
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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Norilsk Museum
