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Solaris – 2024

A dark room with a large, glowing red geometric structure suspended in the background. In the foreground, an interactive display screen shows colorful icons and text related to space and astronomy, Blue lighting enhances the room’s futuristic atmosphere.

Published in Event - 8 min read - Jul 30, 2025

A dark room with a large, glowing red geometric structure suspended in the background. In the foreground, an interactive display screen shows colorful icons and text related to space and astronomy, Blue lighting enhances the room’s futuristic atmosphere.

A brand-new creative project from the collective Axolotl, Solaris took audiences on a journey through the life cycle of a star, all the way from the star nurseries where a star is born to its death and the formation of a pulsar.

The kinetic sculpture is a large motorised expandable sphere made up of thousands of individually mappable LEDs, which displays beautiful visual effects accompanied by voiceovers from very special guests Dara O’Briain and Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell.  

Illuminated geometric structure in pink and red suspended in a church.

Solaris had its world premiere in Cork’s Marina Market and then made its way to Galway’s St. Nicholas’s Collegiate Church. 

 

Young girl stands in front of illuminated geometric sphere sculpture with red and white lights in a dark exhibit space.

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