"Light, in Weinberger's hands, is not a passive glow but an active participant: the visitor is folded into her Caribbean memoryscape, their reflection colliding with fragments of childhood, architecture, and ritual. For the first time, the artist incorporates filmshot in Kingston, Jamaicathreading sound and color into the installation. One feels suspended between temporalities: past and future, memory and projection, self and shadow."
"The lineage of light in art is long, and Weinberger's installation converses with it in thrilling ways. Think of Caravaggio, who weaponized chiaroscuro to dramatize the sacred and the profane. Think of Turner, dissolving form into radiant haze, anticipating abstraction. Think of Vermeer, who transformed the ordinary into a miracle through a window's quiet illumination. Each artist treated light as subject as much as medium, aware that illumination is never neutralit reveals and conceals, sanctifies and destabilizes."
The Space Between Light consists of life-sized mirrored structures that function as portals, multiplying light and bending bodies into kaleidoscopic fragments. Visitors see layered reflections that conflate Caribbean memory, architecture, childhood, and ritual. The installation incorporates film shot in Kingston, Jamaica, adding sound and color that weave past and present, memory and projection. Light operates as an active medium that reveals and conceals, destabilizing singular identity and folding viewers into a memoryscape. The work dialogues with art-historical uses of light—from Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro to Turner’s haze and Vermeer’s quiet illumination—treating illumination as both subject and medium.
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