Sin nombre y sin memoria (No Name and No Memory)
Installation
In Southeast Asia and other places on the earth, there are communities of fireflies that emit pulsar light in unison. Small but great flashes of synchronised light.
It was discovered, upon observation, that these tiny, insignificant insects, were able to use the emission and uptake of infrareds to synchronise their rhythms in order to emit together and thus cooperate in attracting females from further afield.
Hence, Luci, a small sculpture or little “machine”, made from five light and sound emitters with a mechanism fitted to simulate the behaviour of a colony of fireflies. Designed in 1994, it prompted José Manuel Berenguer to create the current installation “Sin nombre y sin memoria” (No name, no memory).
