Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The space-time continuum of eternity and infinity is evoked in Andrea Galvani’s The End (Action #5), a work that plays looped footage of the sun seemingly stopped just above the horizon. It was shot from a military aircraft flying at supersonic speed in the opposite direction of the Earth’s rotation. Because the camera moves toward the horizon faster than the speed of sound, the sun never sets but remains suspended at the threshold of day and night even as the ocean below rushes past. By hypothetically stopping time just before sunset, Galvani suggests infinity and immortality, suspending for a moment the inevitability of death while alluding to the unfailing nature of love.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
The space-time continuum of eternity and infinity is evoked in Andrea Galvani’s The End (Action #5), a work that plays looped footage of the sun seemingly stopped just above the horizon. It was shot from a military aircraft flying at supersonic speed in the opposite direction of the Earth’s rotation. Because the camera moves toward the horizon faster than the speed of sound, the sun never sets but remains suspended at the threshold of day and night even as the ocean below rushes past. By hypothetically stopping time just before sunset, Galvani suggests infinity and immortality, suspending for a moment the inevitability of death while alluding to the unfailing nature of love.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
