Yuyan Wang: Glowing, flaring, lurid, loud

A beam of light climbs from a dark cave, illuminating glowing mineral walls. This opening of a film by Yuyan Wang evokes the very dawn of cinema, where light projected onto stone reveals hidden images. Titled “Glowing, flaring, lurid, loud”, the exhibition explores artificial light as cinema's raw material, examining its impact on our senses and time perception.

At opposite ends of the floor, two films face each other. “Look on the Bright Side” (2023) uses online footage and documentary sequences to trace artificial light from underground depths to LED factories. Conversely, “The Moon Also Rises” (2022) portrays an elderly couple in the twilight of their flat. Finally, the display embraces a primordial cinema with a shadow theatre of insects.