Ezequiel Pini (Six N. Five)

Skyward was unveiled a few days ago in Abu Dhabi, and I am still overwhelmed in the most beautiful way. I tried to capture this journey in these 20 slides. Commissioned by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi for Manar 2025 @publicartabudhabi , this project marks one of the most meaningful moments in my practice so far. This is a first glimpse into the path that brought it to life: the 10.5-ton stone sourced from Ras al-Jaima, shaped by time, the hands that refined it, the choreography of light we created, the alignment with the beautiful @jubailisland desert sky, and the many encounters that guided this process. Skyward is a quiet invitation to look upward, to feel the connection between earth and cosmos, between matter and light, between what we know and what we imagine. Thank you @publicartabudhabi for the trust and vision, and to the curators @khaihori @aliazaal @munira.alsayegh and @mariam.alis and the whole team of @dctabudhabi . Above all bigger thank you to my incredible team who made this possible: @planxgallery @balichwonderstudioksa @barbany_artesans @markosego03 @_owngmbpnq_ @________josh_________ @stracknl with the huge help rigging the light counterpart, and @aimarmolero once again. @belen.palos @linac29 @sebastianbap @daiventrice @mp9xx @nikstabile and everyone who shaped, carried, filmed, cared for, and held each step of this journey. Slides 1, 10, 16, 18, and 20 shot by @sai1971_stephaneaitouarab Slide 15, the unexpected moment when @studio.drift drones crossed paths with the piece.

The making of Umbral. A threshold where the physical permanence of stone blends with the ephemeral movement of flowers, light and screens. Thanks to @barbany_artesans @049arnau for letting me chose the rock from your quarry in the beautiful Orrius (Barcelona), my team @________josh_________ @_owngmbpnq_ @markosego03 @nilestany @andylipe . To @planxgallery @mp9xx @nikstabile for exhibiting it in Dubai and @artbox_ltd_ @artbox_alex for the technical magic support.

Artificial Spaces (2023) The new exhibition in collaboration with @someform.studio 👇 Open in Barcelona, until August 27th, at @digitalimpact.art 💫 Real-time interactive creations, generated at the moment, unique and unrepeatable. The concept of beauty is variable, evolutionary and cultural. Who decides what is considered beautiful at each moment in history? Could the creative process be automated to change how we conceive beauty? By feeding creativity into the machine through architecture, photography, generative design, art and programming, the software can create unique and unrepeatable results, an infinite world of artificially generated architectural spaces created with a bit of our humanity, helping us to question what beauty really means to us. Thanks to @hectorayuso and the talented team involved in this amazing project @hellowinck @helgekiehl @ezequiel.pini @juliussteinhauser @olga__sounds @secondarybounce @mascaraque_ @andylipe @nilestany @t.tallmann @yannikwenk @linac29

Holding the Horizon. The sun sets on one of the edges, the moon rises on the other. The line in between never moves.

Lately in the kitchen. 18 slides of Work in progress.

"The Size of Light" responds to a simple gesture. A movement of the hand becomes a shift in scale, in rhythm, in time. The sun grows and contracts with the opening and closing of the palm. Light shifts. The hour moves. The sky follows a gesture as simple as breathing. I've been thinking about how we experience time not as a sequence of numbers but as light. The quality of morning. The weight of late afternoon. The particular silence of dusk. We feel time before we read it. When the piece is installed, it changes with the real world. During the day, you hold the sun. At night, the moon. The same movement, the same palm — but the universe it touches has turned. We are, after all, made of the same matter. Once again, Thanks to my talented team that made @markosego03 @_owngmbpnq_ @nicolo.baldi_ @ni_co.design and the amazing @secondarybounce

Back in 2020, @microsoft asked me to create a series of images for a confidential project. It was inspired by nature. The shape of flowers, landscapes, and the way forms open, unfold and respond to light. Bloom was part of a broader exploration that lasted several months. One of those pieces slowly evolved into something much bigger, eventually becoming the most viewed work I’ve ever created, appearing on millions of screens every day. Alongside this, I also developed the sun themes, bloom variations, and other nature-inspired worlds that became part of the system. It still feels surreal to see how something born inside some of the computers of the studio can travel this far to be daily in front of someone else on the other side of the world. Grateful to everyone involved in the process, especially @microsoft.design @windows @rhoadsclarke @_christina_koehn_ @polehenky @cassieklingler @joangarciapons @nilestany

Together with @someform.studio we had the pleasure of exhibiting Artificial Spaces at the latest edition of @noorriyadhfestival last November in Riyadh. A new iteration of this contemplative installation where physical matter and digital light begin to interact as a single system. At its center, a 25 kg polished marble sphere acts as a small planet that can be rotated and pushed to influence the creation. Its axis slowly shifts while the surrounding space reacts in real time, generating unique environments of light and movement. Each space is generated live through CGI. Each one appears once, then disappears forever. Born from the beautiful randomness of a machine, fed with 3D models of architectural elements as columns, walls, furniture, objects, and programmed with care to allow the system to decide how the space is formed. We would like to thank the organization of @noorriyadhfestival , @riyadhartofficial and @nouf.almoneef , as well as the curational team @sara.endipity @lzhenhua and @davide_quadrio @bruno.bolfo for this wonderful opportunity. To the team involved @markosego03 @_owngmbpnq_ @________josh_________ @nicolo.baldi_ @secondarybounce @olga__sounds

Pruning the green pixels, in 20 slides ✂️🟩

Some moments shape us in ways that never make it to the final frame. More visual notes from “Skyward”journey in Abu Dhabi. On view in Manar Abu Dhabi exhibition @publicartabudhabi , free access @jubailisland @dctabudhabi . Eternally grateful to those who walk this journey with me.

A brief look into Skyward. The stone from the region, the desert, the choreography of light, and the night opening over Jubail Island. A journey I will never forget. Presented in Manar Abu Dhabi, 2025. Commisioned By @publicartabudhabi By @ezequiel.pini Music by @aimar.molero Drones by @studio.drift Particles by @stracknl Edit by @markosego03

Niu, a contemplative lamp that holds a digital world within. This piece is part of an ongoing exploration I’ve been developing over the past months, an experiment on how digital nature can inhabit physical form. The name remains to a digital nest where illumination becomes alive, breathing through five radiant faces instead of one. It’s not a lamp that stays still; it evolves, it reflects, it feels almost alive. Now on view at @dissenyhub Barcelona until January. Curated by @stefano.colli Once again thanks to team I explore everyday at @sixnfive.lab : @________josh_________ , @markosego03 , @_owngmbpnq_ , @andylipe and @maximilien_vert