Have a Nice Day

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Have a Nice Day is an arti­fi­cial sun in the form of a tapestry. Visit­ors are invited to enjoy its warmth, sounds and light frequen­cies, emit­ted through vari­ous aggreg­ated tech­no­lo­gical devices. The install­a­tion views the sun as a cosmic battery that can be replic­ated and redir­ec­ted for purposes as diverse as cellu­lar rehab­il­it­a­tion, combat­ing skin-ageing or stim­u­lat­ing fertil­ity. Char­ac­ter­istic of our era, the feel­ing evoked by this sun lies some­where between threat and bene­vol­ence.

The install­a­tion Have a Nice Day explores the sun as a domest­ic­ated energy, harnessed for vari­ous purposes. In an era marked by techno-science, Have a Nice Day reflects our ambi­val­ent rela­tion­ship with the star: once a symbol of life, the sun is now held account­able for climate warm­ing and numer­ous cancers. Through its immers­ive nature, the install­a­tion invites visit­ors to phys­ic­ally exper­i­ence the tension between control and depend­ence, between Eros and Thanatos, thereby evok­ing the crit­ical stakes of the human rela­tion­ship with the envir­on­ment and the body.

The project draws on philo­soph­ical and scientific reflec­tions: primar­ily, Russian cosmism, which links human destiny, the conquest of the cosmos, and tech­no­logy. Another source of inspir­a­tion is Georges Bataille’s essay La Part maudite (1949), in which the sun embod­ies an effus­ive energy, both creat­ive and destruct­ive. These influ­ences provoke a contem­por­ary ques­tion: how can we chan­nel this incom­par­able force without exacer­bat­ing the imbal­ances it gener­ates? In a tech­no­lo­gic­ally evolving world, Have a Nice Day offers an immers­ive bodily exper­i­ence, trans­form­ing climate-related anxi­et­ies into an aesthetic reflec­tion. Through its arti­fi­cial light, the install­a­tion illu­min­ates the para­doxes of our time: mastery of the living and the poten­tial loss of its essence.