Posted on
2026-07-20
MORE LIGHT is part of a three-part constellation unfolding across London in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts and its annual Summer Exhibition. What binds all three parts together is light. Not only as a visual phenomenon, but as a shared human experience. Light becomes both the material and the subject of the works: something that moves through the body and the city.
The first part, THE SONG IS YOU is a new rainbow poem installed in the courtyard of the Royal Academy. Suspended three meters above the ground, the rainbow creates an arc beneath which visitors must pass in order to enter the Summer Exhibition. The rainbow transforms the threshold of the museum into a moment of passage, guiding visitors from the street into the space of the institution.
The second part, LIGHT, consists of fifty-four flags installed on Bond Street, Mayfair. Each flag presents a different sunrise or sunset derived from my ongoing sunrise/sunset paintings, a body of work I began in the summer of2016. As people move through the city, the flags unfold like a sequence of changing skies, carrying viewers through the rhythm of a day.
The third part, MORE LIGHT, brings six sunrise and sunset images into the intimate space of the gallery. The paintings are made with watercolor on unprimed cotton using the most reduced means possible: a horizon line and a circle or halfcircle lightly drawn in pencil, followed by loose washes of color whose edges remain open. The simplicity of the works with its loose watercolor washes allows the image to exist in a state between appearance and fading away.
Opposite – achtzehntermaizweitausendundsechsundzwanzig, 2026
Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2026
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