The Water Light Festival’s fifth edition takes place in Brixen and its surroundings, from May 3 to 21, 2023. Curated by Nika Perne and Werner Zanotti, the festival gathers forty-eight light-based installations: interactive devices and video mapping projections, light sculptures, sound-reacting lasers, data visualizations, kinetic architectures, and live performers (for the first time!). It brings together local, regional, and international artists, whose work is related to water and light themes.

We met at the Center for International Light Art in Unna, where Christine Sciulli currently presents her site-specific installation FERMENT for the exhibition program HYPERsculptures, open to the public from November 2022 to April 2023. She is one of the participating artists along with Squidsoup, Julius Stahl, Philip Vermeulen, and Giny Vos. After descending 10 Meters into the Center for International Light Art, we enter the dark vaulted exhibition space which FERMENT inhabits. The ambiguous cloud before us seems to be a living organism.

It was in Gdansk, in 2010, when I saw Ken Matsubara’s photographic work for the first time at the Center for Contemporary Art CCA ŁAŹNIA. I was working on NARRACJE, an international art-in-public-space project, which I curated from 2009 to 2011. The title of the exhibition was “Archetyp Fotografii”