The sun is one of the most persistent figures in IAMPIÔ's visual universe: it reappears across collections, drawings and installations, always present, always charged.

 

There is something that has always fascinated her about solar energy: the fact that it is never truly absent. Even at night, the sun is there. We simply see it through the moon, its light reflected back to us in another form. The sun does not disappear. It changes phase.

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The Sun Sometimes Dreams holds both phases in a single sculpture.

 

One face is awake: radiant, direct, fully present. The other is asleep: withdrawn, dreaming, visible only by reflection. The ceramic invites whoever keeps it to choose which phase to show, to turn the piece according to their own energetic mood and let it radiate accordingly into the room. An object that adjusts to the inner weather of the person who lives with it.

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When the sun is asleep, it dreams. IAMPIÔ loves this thought: that the sun has a dream life, that somewhere in the quiet of the night it is thinking something we cannot know. What does it dream about? What would its psychoanalyst say?

 

The sculpture belongs to IAMPIÔ's ongoing iconography of celestial bodies and interior states.