Video, 15′ 00′′
2020-2021

Saros presents an absurd story in a post-pandemic era: at the apex of a new cycle of solar activity, in the shadow the eclipse of the summer solstice, the electronic system disrupted because of the magnetic field disturbance, while a family transform and mutate into their domestic environment of a soap, plastic bag, artificial plant and an electric plug.

The film uses digital models and its support system as a medium to inves- tigate the irregular structures behind modern life: networks, databases, QR codes, planetary matter, cosmic cycles, artificial environments, the order and disorder of the mundane human life.
It recreates the annular eclipse of the summer solstice in 2020 and in- vokes the deadly relationship between solar activity and electronic systems to touch on the uncertainties that exist in both the digital and physical world – in the pre-Internet era, a breakdown in electronic systems caused by a massive solar storm had occurred, which could turn out to be a catastrophe today, however, the next one cannot yet be predicted. As a silent aside, an intelligent machine recounts its experience of a malfunction, as if describing an illness, a systemic disruption. Yet it may also be mere gibberish.

The film was shot in the neighborhoods of the Capital Belt of Beijing, where the artist lived during the lockdown, and invited friends, neighbors, and domestic and maintenance workers to join the performance . In addition, as a parallel line, the audience can scan the QR codes that appear in the film to access different screen spaces. These include a short notice, and two pieces of advertisement for a digital perfume and a digital watch, which can be accessed in its digital form, however the virtual world does not smell and the watch can not indicate the time.

While the Chinese title means one day in eternity, the English title of the work, Saros, means the certain period of time used to predict the cycle of eclipses, where the Sun, Earth and Moon return to similar corresponding positions, so that almost the same eclipses will occur again.