• Paul Chan
  6th Light, 2007
  Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
  Photograph: Jean Vong
  

Paul Chan is an artist and an activist. He has been working on the digital animation series The 7 Lights since 2005. In these works, the artist projects compositions of light and animation that form an imagined landscape, unfolding with the movement of light. Like the play of shadows, they interact with the space and those who enter it. In 6th Light, the dreamlike, slow-motion image begins with a distended rectangle of light projected on to the floor of the gallery, empty save for an abstract cross reminiscent of a window frame. After a time, indistinct, unidentifiable and fragmentary shadows in varying scales and degrees of focus begin to drift across the space. Groups of these entropic forms overlap in the space and pass each other at different speeds. The cross eventually shatters into shards and in the final moments the screen returns to pure light.

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