La velocidad de las cosas is a series of solid wood benches inlaid with household objects. Each bench has carved one of the 88 constellations that make up the planet’s sky. The position of the legs of the stools and the built-in objects directly corresponds to the organization of each constellation. Surrounding stars are depicted with pegs missing.
Modern science finished mapping the sky around the 17th century. Although many civilizations have placed great symbolic and mythological burden on asterisms, much of this modern sky is meaningless.
This project works as a poetic exercise to put possible associations between heaven and earth in motion. The embedded objects function in some cases as comments on existing mythologies, in others as lines of flight or starting points for new imaginations.
In any case, the logic of selecting the objects responds to two premises: the domestic universe and the cylindrical/circular shape so that, when inserting the piece and sanding it at the worktop level, the object functions more like a circle between the stars of sky maps.

La velocidad de las cosas is a series of solid wood benches inlaid with household objects. Each bench has carved one of the 88 constellations that make up the planet’s sky. The position of the legs of the stools and the built-in objects directly corresponds to the organization of each constellation. Surrounding stars are depicted with pegs missing.
Modern science finished mapping the sky around the 17th century. Although many civilizations have placed great symbolic and mythological burden on asterisms, much of this modern sky is meaningless.
This project works as a poetic exercise to put possible associations between heaven and earth in motion. The embedded objects function in some cases as comments on existing mythologies, in others as lines of flight or starting points for new imaginations.
In any case, the logic of selecting the objects responds to two premises: the domestic universe and the cylindrical/circular shape so that, when inserting the piece and sanding it at the worktop level, the object functions more like a circle between the stars of sky maps.

La velocidad de las cosas is a series of solid wood benches inlaid with household objects. Each bench has carved one of the 88 constellations that make up the planet’s sky. The position of the legs of the stools and the built-in objects directly corresponds to the organization of each constellation. Surrounding stars are depicted with pegs missing.
Modern science finished mapping the sky around the 17th century. Although many civilizations have placed great symbolic and mythological burden on asterisms, much of this modern sky is meaningless.
This project works as a poetic exercise to put possible associations between heaven and earth in motion. The embedded objects function in some cases as comments on existing mythologies, in others as lines of flight or starting points for new imaginations.
In any case, the logic of selecting the objects responds to two premises: the domestic universe and the cylindrical/circular shape so that, when inserting the piece and sanding it at the worktop level, the object functions more like a circle between the stars of sky maps.

“The Depth of Things” is a series of 24 photographs created from a star planisphere. Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into 24 fragments, which he then used as precise guides for composing the images.
The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of the stars and nebulae. For stars belonging
to any of the constellations of modern science, he positioned the objects at a precise height. He used a very shallow depth of field so that only those objects were in focus. In the background, items like steel wool, rice grains, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and transform into galactic forms.
The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane transforms into the stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.

“The Depth of Things” is a series of 24 photographs created from a star planisphere. Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into 24 fragments, which he then used as precise guides for composing the images.
The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of the stars and nebulae. For stars belonging
to any of the constellations of modern science, he positioned the objects at a precise height. He used a very shallow depth of field so that only those objects were in focus. In the background, items like steel wool, rice grains, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and transform into galactic forms.
The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane transforms into the stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.

“The Depth of Things” is a series of 24 photographs created from a star planisphere. Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into 24 fragments, which he then used as precise guides for composing the images.
The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of the stars and nebulae. For stars belonging
to any of the constellations of modern science, he positioned the objects at a precise height. He used a very shallow depth of field so that only those objects were in focus. In the background, items like steel wool, rice grains, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and transform into galactic forms.
The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane transforms into the stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.

“The Depth of Things” is a series of 24 photographs created from a star planisphere. Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into 24 fragments, which he then used as precise guides for composing the images.

The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of the stars and nebulae. For stars belonging to any of the constellations of modern science, he positioned the objects at a precise height. He used a very shallow depth of field so that only those objects were in focus. In the background, items like steel wool, rice grains, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and transform into galactic forms.

The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane transforms into the stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.

“The Depth of Things” is a series of 24 photographs created from a star planisphere. Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into 24 fragments, which he then used as precise guides for composing the images.

The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of the stars and nebulae. For stars belonging to any of the constellations of modern science, he positioned the objects at a precise height. He used a very shallow depth of field so that only those objects were in focus. In the background, items like steel wool, rice grains, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and transform into galactic forms.

The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane transforms into the stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.

“The Depth of Things” is a series of 24 photographs created from a star planisphere. Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into 24 fragments, which he then used as precise guides for composing the images.

The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of the stars and nebulae. For stars belonging to any of the constellations of modern science, he positioned the objects at a precise height. He used a very shallow depth of field so that only those objects were in focus. In the background, items like steel wool, rice grains, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and transform into galactic forms.

The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane transforms into the stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.

“The Depth of Things” is a series of 24 photographs created from a star planisphere. Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into 24 fragments, which he then used as precise guides for composing the images.
The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of the stars and nebulae. For stars belonging
to any of the constellations of modern science, he positioned the objects at a precise height. He used a very shallow depth of field so that only those objects were in focus. In the background, items like steel wool, rice grains, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and transform into galactic forms.
The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane transforms into the stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.

View from Nicolás Bacal’s studio showing the camera and the table where he builds the image.