Aldebaran b I, II , 2025

Aldebaran, a red giant located about 65 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, is a star in the final stage of its evolution. Its name comes from the Arabic al-Dabarān, meaning “the follower,” as it appears in the sky to trail the Pleiades cluster.

Aldebaran b, on the other hand, is an exoplanet identified around the star of the same name, whose existence has been repeatedly called into question.

The textile sculptures Aldebaran b I and Aldebaran b II give form to this uncertain dimension, embodying the ambiguous existence of the celestial body. Its indeterminacy evokes a tension between hypothesis and verification, reflected in the works themselves, which resist any univocal definition. Surfaces wrap around themselves, structures lean toward unstable equilibrium, forms intersect without ever fully merging: everything contributes to a sense of the indefinable, of something that exists but never clearly asserts itself.