Vega

Y sin embargo, se mueven I

Ximena Rojas & Karla Wittwer

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

Acrylic on linen

250 x 140 cm 

2026