JULIA CARRILLO
LUZ INSTANTE
06.26.2021 – 09.19.2021
INTO THE LIGHT, 2021
In 2019 I lived for a few months in Seoul during an artist residency at the Korea Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. In Seoul, the modern accent of an Asian capital coexists with surprising natural landscapes inserted in the dynamics of the city itself. On one of my daily walks along a river, I noticed that at a certain time of day light patterns were projected onto a nearby bridge. The river water acted as a dynamic mirror. I took advantage of those lighting conditions to move my studio to this setting and I brought some of my work objects with the intention of recreating something I had imagined: a water prism. Finally, I reconstructed these conditions in my studio and developed a work based on the interaction of water with a beam of light.
The artwork is a light essay in a space with controlled conditions that recreates a peculiar rainbow. It consists of a dynamic projection of the decomposition of light that reveals the spectral colors. But the static image of the rainbow constantly breaks its own planimetry, explores its spatiality in a succession of unsuspected patterns. The water-lens bounces off any movement, it is interrupted, it stabilizes, it settles.
