site-specific light installation as part of Copenhagen Light Festival
30 Jan – 22 Feb 2026
Byparken, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vaults of Silence: In Pursuit of Light is a site-specific installation exploring confined spaces through corporeal experience, inspired by protective underground environments. Light functions as a counterpoint to darkness and weight, appearing as a sign of hope, resilience, and emancipation. Filtering through cracks or emerging from imagined depths, it reflects the human drive toward release and transformation. The work resembles an abstract body in flux — shifting between presence and absence — and presents a fragment of a shelter: a trace of what has been, or what is yet to come.
This light installation delves into the intricate relationship between the human body and the spaces it inhabits, with a particular focus on environments that impose physical limitations. The project originated from my long-standing fascination with protective subterranean spaces and their growing relevance in the contemporary world. The early stages of this artistic exploration culminated in an exhibition at Konstmuseet i Skövde between February and April 2025, laying the foundation for my continued investigation of this subject.
Within this context, light emerges as a critical counterpoint to the heaviness and darkness often associated with underground spaces. It becomes a metaphor for hope, resilience, and the possibility of a future beyond present constraints. Whether filtering through narrow cracks, refracting off surfaces, or imagined within the depths of darkness, light symbolises the persistent human drive toward clarity, liberation, and renewal.
Using materials such as thin plywood planks and Neon Flex LED, the installation consists of deformed surface fragments of the human body bound together to form a structure that engages with the surrounding environment through its own energy. It moves dynamically in the air, appearing and disappearing, simultaneously dominating and infiltrating the space. Resembling an abstract body in the midst of transformation, the work highlights a continual shift between something and nothing, presence and dissolution. In this sense, the installation can be understood as an experimental interplay — a fragment of a closed space, a shelter, or a remnant of what has occurred or what may yet emerge.
