Night on Earth
2026
700 × 500 × 350 cm
2 mm aluminium plate, UV print
This is an image installation about nocturnal perception. The sensation of night arises from two actions: turning off the lights and closing the eyes. In physiological terms, after the eyes close the retina briefly retains an afterimage of light—it is not an image of the external world, but a residual signal of the sensory system itself. The act of closing the eyes is like night enveloping the earth: on the other side of darkness, the world lights up, and neural sensation extends into that other side. In this image installation, the artist has selected fourteen public-domain images released by NASA as his base layer. The surface shows different regions of the earth at night, photographed from space. Beneath this surface layer, one or more additional layers of information are stacked—cell division, nocturnal cityscapes, high-speed flowing light spots, winter forests. The artist removes the artificial light points from the images in these stacked layers, leaving only the instant when the halo retracts after the lights go out.