There is a light

Silver gelatin print, acrylic / 2024 / 70x100 cm  

The work There is a Light was created through an analogue process in which freestanding letters were placed onto large sheets of photosensitive paper and exposed to light. Rather than capturing the letters themselves, the paper records the immaterial trace of their absence, the luminous projection of their shadows, fixing presence through the paradox of invisibility. Developed with traditional darkroom chemistry, the image transforms a simple phrase on the ontology of light: what does it mean to give form to something that itself is formless? The work suggests that light, as both condition and metaphor of existence, may carry no shadow of its own, leaving us to question how visibility and meaning emerge in the fragile interplay between illumination and concealment.