no. 2

Lights at Night: Contemporary Artistic Photographs from Lagos, Nigeria 

Eva Wiegert draws on contemporary photographic series by African artists to examine how artists harness the city’s nocturnal light to reimagine urban space. These photographs not only capture the energy of nocturnal Lagos but also challenge stereotypes and invite viewers to see its people and places from new perspectives.

Like Moths to a Flame

Laura Laabs follows the smooth path of a drone, the central vehicle in a tech demo for raytracing technologies. Using the moth as a figure for our relationship to light, Laabs asks what is at stake in such mediations of reflection and shine.

The George Floyd Hologram: Between Memorial, Media, and Market

Drawing on the George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project, Clara Podlesnigg examines how luminous projections transformed sites of white supremacy into spaces of counter-narrative and spectacle. While the hologram elevated Floyd’s image into a racial icon, it also exposed the problematic convergence of commemoration, commodification, and the erasure of Black life in public space.