FINISSAGE 30. January 2025 / 18:00
In All things bright and beautiful, Michel Gilgen dives into the mesmerizing dance between light and shadow that defines urban life. His work captures the way city lights break through the darkness, casting both literal and emotional reflections across the facades and glass of city streets. This exhibition explores how light interacts with the city’s architecture, creating fleeting moments of clarity amidst the shadows, and offering glimpses of untold stories hiding in the reflections.
Gilgen’s works mirror the contrast of brilliance and solitude. His lens reveals a world where neon signs and streetlights offer a fleeting warmth, while dark corners and reflections hold quieter, more introspective stories. These illuminated moments are not just reflections of the cityscape, but reflections of the inner lives of those who pass through, connected by light yet surrounded by shadows.
All things bright and beautiful invites viewers to see their own experiences mirrored in these images, as they too move through the interplay of light and dark that shapes urban existence.
About the Artist: Michel Gilgen is a Swiss artist with a unique eye for capturing the emotional landscapes of city life. His work often plays with the themes of light and shadow, using the reflections of windows, streets, and buildings to explore human isolation, connection, and the transient nature of urban moments. Through his lens, cities are not just places, but living entities, where light reveals and conceals the emotions that lie beneath the surface.
