I Must Still Grow in the Dark
The exhibition I must still grow in the dark interrogates the relationship between darkness, irrationality, ignorance, barbarism, and mischief, and proposes an understanding of darkness as a generative force, alive with the capacity to act.¹ Through a series of videos, installations, photographs, and sculptures composed of dark matter—black ink, dark earth, unilluminated space—this exhibition invokes those properties of darkness that modernity tends to ignore: its capacity to resist, interrupt, and disturb, its ability to spawn and shelter imaginaries that elude capture, its potential to alter the relationship between our bodies and their surroundings, and its drive towards greater freedom.
By addressing these potentialities, the exhibition liberates darkness to disclose all that it is capable of, thereby negating that binary system—one that opposes white and black, civilization and barbarism, culture and nature, mind and body, object and subject, reason and superstition—which makes of it the contrary of light.
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