How would we perceive time if space were different?  How can we answer this question? Perhaps by imagining ourselves in a different space, thousands of kilometres away from Earth. What if we were to journey to Mars and relocate the Glòries Tower there? Let’s stretch our imagination a bit further. How would the Sun illuminate the façade of this totem amidst the arid and solitary Martian landscape? Elisa Storelli speculates on this idea with her installation Mira el SOL [Look at the SUN]: the Glòries Tower lit by a virtual sun during a Martian day. The luminous skin characteristic of this building, transformed into a colossal sundial, displays the passage of time on this not-so-distant planet. Mira el SOL is a piece commissioned by Mirador torre Glòries which, in keeping with its exhibition narrative, amplifies the relationships between urban ecosystems and extends them to planetary ecosystems, inviting visitors to take a conscious and responsible look at our environment.

Elisa Storelli is a Swiss-Italian artist based between Brissago and Berlin. Her artistic investigation focuses on the ever-changing phenomenon of time and how this concept interacts with social structures, including how time measurement influences perceptions, emotions, biology, and language. She works with scientific theories and historical and non-Western perspectives on time, transforming them into often technically demanding works, a practice she has termed chronomorphology. Each of her artworks playfully expresses itself in an anarchic and poetic format, featuring a collection of properties and facts about time intended to unveil new perspectives on this abstract phenomenon. Storelli’s work has been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2022, GAK Bremen, the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, among other cities and international cultural events.