This June, four artists experiment with light as an inscription of the invisible. Light is central to how we see our world, though often light itself, cannot be seen. The artists delve into hidden energies and vibrations to image time, the cosmos, sensory experience and spirit of place.
Curated by Amanda Solomons and Gary Warner, this show focuses on contemporary approaches to using light as a way to capture and retrace ethereal phenomena. Justine Roche ponders hauntology through the revelatory surfacing of historical events concealed in landscapes while Yvette Hamilton seeks to expose the unseeable radiance of celestial bodies and other occurrences.
Aidan Gageler makes works to be felt as much as seen, using antique processes of light, time, and chemistry. Sam James performatively draws with light to capture ghost-traces of movement and memory in public spaces.
Each reverts photography to its etymological foundation of the experimentation of ‘drawing with light’ and through this, revive and extend esoteric and anachronistic processes. The artists expand upon the hard-won effects of traditional drawing media – shimmer, glow, incandescence, lustre and radiance – through different techniques and technologies to create fascinating still and moving imagery that pictures the entanglements of light, existence and mind.
