Notes On Darkness : Laila Svensgaard

THEORY OF COLOUR
SFUMATO

Notes On Darkness
SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
10.08.2028 - 13.10.2018

Press release

Sfumato takes us into the first evolutionary development of image production - the camera obscura - where images appear in the dark, formed by a tiny spill of light through a hole in the wall. The camera obscura - a premodern discovery - manifests another dimension of reality, than today's destabilised and digital image production, creating new relationships between images - sight and reality - knowledge and validity.

Theory of Colour is a series of analogue colour photographs, wherein colour printing’s relationship to darkness is explored. The analogue colour print is, unlike digital inkjet printing, dependent on complete darkness. The series explores colour printings sensitivity to the exposure of light. Images form on paper, in a blink of an eye, where light meets darkness, as explored in the colour theory by Goethe. These large-scale abstract photograms or ‘action paintings’ challenge the rational as an aspect of the analogue photographic process by relying only on the sensory reception beyond sight.

Photo: Christopher Sand Iversen, Laila Svensgaard

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