Circadian Silence, developed in collaboration with artist Johannes C. Gerard, marked a pivotal moment in my artistic journey. The project expanded the scope of my practice, opening new avenues of expression—particularly through audiovisual media—while fostering an ongoing dialogue around our respective artistic visions, approaches, and creative processes.

The work is composed from the sequence of the CLOCK gene, one of the key regulators of circadian rhythm—the molecular clock that governs the alternation of day and night, wakefulness and rest. Its sequence becomes a musical architecture, a transcription of the inner temporality of living systems.

« The biological clock — that invisible rhythm of light and dark, waking and sleeping, hormonal tides and cellular repair — operates beneath every dimension of digital life without ever being acknowledged by it. Circadian Silence attends to this overlooked intelligence: the bodily time that digital culture systematically overrides, the rhythms of the organism that predate and exceed any screen, any algorithm, any notification.

Developed through the encounter between a visual artist working with questions of time, boundary, and emptiness and a scientist-painter who translates biological data into visual form, the work occupies the precise point where Eastern philosophical concepts of Zen and Ma (the productive interval, the meaningful silence) meet Western scientific knowledge of chronobiology. In the context of RE.SINGULARITY, Circadian Silence is an argument for a temporality that cannot be accelerated: the biological intelligence of the sleeping body, the immune system, the liver’s nocturnal housekeeping — a form of knowing that operates at a timescale the algorithm cannot touch.  » Jesus N. Rivero, Curator, ]ON[ SCREEN Festival, Vienna, Austria.