Discover our latest issue!
The Light Observer explores light and how artists, photographers, scientists and more, understand and use light in their work.
The seventh issue revolves around the idea of experimentation.
Together, the contributors of this issue embrace a spirit of exploration—at times intimate, always profound—inviting us to experience light as an evolving force that continuously reshapes our understanding of space, perception, and reality.
Selected Stories:
⬑ Laida Lertxundi, “We Had the Experience But Missed the Meaning”, exhibition at mercred/samed/ curated by The Light Observer
Henni Alftan
“I guess my paintings look like how I would describe things, rather than how they are.”
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⬑ Laida Lertxundi
Discover the series in our ISSUE 6
Daniel Canogar
“The found technologies become reactivated by the animations and light that emerge from the screens, revealing the spirit these devices once had when they were fully operational”
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⬑ Irene Fenara
Discover the series in our ISSUE 4
⬑ Sheung Yiu
Discover the series in our ISSUE 4
⬑ Arguiñe Escandón & Yann Gross - AYA
Read their interview in our ISSUE 3
Nico Krijno
“It’s an electro-bricolage process that’s very difficult to tease apart: it’s constantly shifting like a conversation that never stops.”
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⬑ Jeff Keen by Stella Starr
Discover the series in our ISSUE 6
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Ephemeral Nature
Hexton Gallery is making available an extensive selection of Christo’s original drawings, collages, and wrapped objects from their private collection, many of which have never been shown to the public until now.
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⬑ Cecilia Del Gatto
Discover the series in our ISSUE 5
Tracy Fullerton
“We are playing with light in many different ways that leaves the player uncertain about where and when they are.”
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Adrien Lucca
“I’m drawn to the idea of progression: while time passes something is happening. This is how I compose”
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Anthony McCall
“I work with light in very specific ways, causing it, paradoxically, to appear solid”
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⬑ Olafur Eliasson
Discover the article in our ISSUE 2
⬑ Alex Foxton
Read his interview in our ISSUE 2
Ann Veronica Janssens
“I try to make the material unstable, fluid, similar to experiences and situations.”
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⬑ Guillaume Simoneau
Discover the article in our ISSUE 1
Paul Rousteau
“These complex and intense emotions are difficult to translate visually. That’s why I experiment a lot.”
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“We can derive from light so much emotion, so much understanding and knowledge that the real importance of light is worthy to think about a lot”
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