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from 20 May: At Night
At night, it is dark. Only when the sky is clear does the world reveal itself in the dark light reflected by the moon. Everyone is asleep – only you are there to see it. The unknown lurks in the darkness. You hear something, but you cannot see it. You are left to your own devices.
Darkness is the absence of daylight: you see less clearly, see things differently, or see nothing at all. With darkness, the dark of night has become a symbol that gives pause for thought…
In Kafka’s notation ‘At Night’, from the early 1920s, he writes: ‘It is play acting, an innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof … in reality they have flocked together as they had once … in a deserted region, a camp, … under a cold sky on cold earth.’
Darkness is the absence of daylight: you see less clearly, see things differently, or see nothing at all. With darkness, the dark of night has become a symbol that gives pause for thought…
In Kafka’s notation ‘At Night’, from the early 1920s, he writes: ‘It is play acting, an innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof … in reality they have flocked together as they had once … in a deserted region, a camp, … under a cold sky on cold earth.’
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The lonely soul awake at night, is bereft of the daytime illusion of safety and security. They see that we are vulnerable, standing beneath a cold sky: there seems to be no one who cares for us, who looks after us.
The word ‘photo’ in photography comes from the Ancient Greek word for light: phōs. To engrave means ‘to write’. Photography therefore means: writing with light. In the past, before the introduction of AI, photography was regarded as proof. Events and places could be documented and recorded with it: a photograph did not lie. As such, photography was a medium that was trusted: it showed reality as it really was. The stark reality. Photography could be stark, devoid of illusion; it recorded reality with cold light. There is a certain analogy between how the night can strip away the illusion of safety and security that exists during the day, and how photography revealed the stark reality. Photography can record darkness with light. |
In the exhibition ‘At Night’ at R.S.O.L. Deventer, nine contemporary artist-photographers present photographs that were made in places with very little light – both literally and metaphorically.
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