No Light No Light
Group show featuring Hans Hartung, DECHA, Raphael Hefti, Leiko Ikemura, Véronique Joumard and more

No Light No Light examines the fundamental conditions of seeing and the epistemological prerequisites of visual experience. In this exhibition, light appears neither as a motivic subject nor as symbolic metaphor, but rather as a constitutive medium that enables and forms perception. It is less an object than a condition, a physical, atmospheric, and simultaneously immaterial magnitude through which space, time, and visibility are produced.

Departing from artistic positions that conceive light as energetic phenomenon, material agent, and informational structure, the exhibition traces its displacement from sensually experienceable presence toward abstract, technological, and systemic orders. Light thereby functions not solely as a means of visualization but actively intervenes in the conditions under which perception emerges. Seeing thus reveals itself as a relational, situational, and temporally constituted process. [...]

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