Vega

Works by: Sol Mark / Carolina Brooks / Ximena Rojas + Karla Wittwer

Sol Mark

Vega

Secuelas de voracidad

Sol Mark // arg-es


Vega is the principal star of the constellation Lyra, mythologically associated with Orpheus’s lyre — the instrument the musician and poet used to enchant animals, make stones weep, move trees, and stir the gods themselves.


Orpheus loses the love of his life, Eurydice, shortly after their wedding. Devastated, he descends into the underworld to bring her back. Through the power of his music, he persuades the gods to return his beloved to him. But there is one condition: he must cross the realm of the dead with her walking behind him, without ever turning to look at her. Just before reaching the surface, unable to resist, he turns around — and loses her forever.


In Asian mythology, Vega and Altair are lovers separated by jealous gods, who placed the Milky Way between them. They are allowed to meet only once a year, embodying distant love, patience, cosmic encounters, and destiny.


There are bridges.

Between what was,
what is,
and what could be.

The horizon becomes a vertex
to the left, to the right.

An urgency of stillness
An inertia of speed.

An act of trust,
a magical territory

Patience, the conquest of time


Vega

Secuelas de voracidad

Sol Mark

Acrylic, ink, and graphite on canvas

75 x 110 cm

2026

Carolina Brooks

Vega

Enchantment at the Threshold: A multi-sensory stellar ritual working withVega

Carolina Brooks // UK

Workshop

Vega is one of the 15 Behenian fixed stars in the constellation of Lyra with a strong magical tradition across Babylonian and ancient Greek cultures. Known to the Babylonians as the Messenger of Light and to Arabic astronomers as an-nasr al-wāqi, the Falling Vulture, Vega's earthly representatives in the talismanic tradition are chrysolite, winter savory and fumitory, materials prescribed against nocturnal phantoms, fears and spiritual contamination in liminal states, specifically the threshold between waking and sleeping.


In the Greek tradition, Vega's lyre was in the hands of Orpheus, whose music was so complete it suspended the rules of reality and enchanted Hades, pausing the tortures of the underworld. The quality of beauty was so total it reorganised perception entirely.


This ritual creates a multi-sensory experience of Vega's quality of enchantment through sound frequencies and scales derived from Vega's own rotation period, a large format card from the Astrofármakon oracle deck as visual anchor, and an Astrofármakon essence prepared under Vega at its culmination in Exmoor. Specific ritual incantations were performed as the frequencies ran through the essence during its making, drawing stellar transmissions from Vega directly into its earthly representatives.

Participants receive the essence to use at the threshold of sleep, where it continues Vega's work, quieting the filtering mind and opening a receptivity to what we might otherwise close ourselves against, while protecting against what comes through uninvited in liminal states.


Vega

Στερέωμα και Λύρα (The Firmament & the Lyre)

Carolina Brooks // UK


vega

Στερέωμα και Λύρα (The Firmament & the Lyre)

Carolina Brooks

Acrylic & Watercolour on paper, diptych 

250 x 250 cm

2026

Ximena Rojas + Karla Wittwer

Vega

Y sin embargo, se mueven I

Ximena Rojas + Karla Wittwer // CL

Vega, one of the brightest stars visible from Earth, belongs to the constellation of Lyra and has historically served as a point of orientation both astronomical and symbolic. Its clear and steady blue-white light gives it an almost immaterial quality: a presence that does not erupt, but endures. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, Vega sustains a radiation that seems to exist in a precise balance between intensity and movement, as though its brightness silently participated in the continuous drift of the cosmos.


In the work, this condition translates into a contained spatiality in which tension does not arise from excess, but from the delicacy of the relationships between matter, emptiness, and light. The canvas acts as a sensitive membrane: a light body that barely retains the vibration passing through it. Here, matter does not seek to assert itself through weight, but through a form of silent suspension, where presence is sustained on the threshold between appearance and disappearance. Everything seems to suggest an internal and continuous movement, similar to that of celestial bodies which, despite their apparent stillness, never cease to move.


From an archetypal perspective, Vega has long been associated with harmony, music, and invisible resonance. As the central star of Lyra — the lyre — its symbolism evokes that which orders without imposing itself: a frequency capable of affecting perception through subtlety. Unlike more eruptive or solar forces, Vega embodies a silent intelligence linked to beauty, inner orientation, and the capacity to sustain presence through stillness.


The work gathers this intangible quality. Vega appears here as an intimate threshold: a minimal vibration that organizes space through what is barely perceptible, reminding us that there is also a form of luminosity that acts through softness rather than overflow.


Vega

Y sin embargo, se mueven I

Ximena Rojas + Karla Wittwer // CL

Acrylic on linen

250 x 140 cm 

2026