Haroon Mirza, Light Work xliii, 2022

2022

Medium

LED strip, wire and fixings

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155754

Light Work xliii (2022) is a wall piece from the series of minimalist light drawings made of red, blue and green glowing LEDs. Their electromagnetic waves combine to form a white light within the space. The respective lengths of the LED strips are defined and proportioned to each other depending on radiance or RGB color intensity. Using reduced, geometric shapes by connecting the individual LED strips with cables and copper tape, Mirza investigates the presence of light and its interaction with spatial structures. The artist reduces line drawing to electricity and the RGB color space, referring to the works of Minimal Art from the 1960s, such as Dan Flavin's light works or Fred Sandback's geometric spatial sculptures of cords. In Light Work xliii, Mirza uses electricity in the form of light to address the connections of human existence: “I use electricity as a medium (which can be rationalized as waves), which in simple terms is reality – or more particularly, our conscious relationship to existence."