As artificial illumination extended into the night, the natural boundaries between day and night began to dissolve. The exhibition unfolds as a visual essay. It searches for an alternative imagery of the cosmos, reflects on the influence of the celestial on our bodies and on the environment. Johan Österholm’s sculpture Luminous Reign (Toppled) is included in the group exhibition.
Johan Österholm uses photography as a medium for reflecting on evolving conceptions of what constitutes a nightscape and what counts as “darkness.” He approaches the subject of light pollution and nocturnal illumination as a kind of historian of light, carefully combining archival material and archaic photographic processes with the glare of artificial city lights as well as the more enigmatic light of the full moon, which conceals details even as it reveals contours.
BWA Wrocław Główny Gallery
25 April – 24 August 2025
