THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN

2025

Work in collaboration with Marion Flament 

The miracle had been foretold three months earlier. The Lady in White chose three young shepherds to carry her message.

The village of Fátima in Portugal held only a few thousand souls. And yet, news spread like wildfire. On the morning of October 13, 1917, 70,000 people gathered under pouring rain: some came curious, others with faith or doubt — a few merely passing time. An odd assembly, each seeking their own truth, their own fiction.

The miracle had them holding their breath. Finally, the sky tore open, clouds parted, and the silver disc began its frenzied course. Suddenly, the grass was no longer grass, but a flicker of reds, yellows, and purples. The sun no longer burned the eye but danced alongside it in strange, erratic movements. A prophetic sight, if ever there was one. Everyone saw — not all believed.

In this solar dance, two artists found each other: a photographer and a sculptor, both attuned to how light sways, how matter transforms, how reality quietly slips into the poetic, the spiritual, the imaginary. So they sought out the remnants, welcomed the stories, and forged new gestures to raise cathedrals of light around Fátima. In this interplay of images and form, past and present, myth and memory, stories are reinvented, opening up new horizons. Rippling through time.

A century later, the echo still lingers. See how light continues to shape the world at its own whim. It envelops and sculpts, alters and reveals, becomes prism and mirror.
Mirage or miracle — become a witness in turn.

Text Eleonore Simon, 2025