Light Lines
May - June, 2009
Designer and photographer Joe Madeira uses a wide range
of light sources including LEDs, glowsticks, bike headlights
and keyring torches to draw with light usually at dusk or
dawn. By using long camera exposures and performance he
constructs intricate calligraphic interventions in urban
environments.
The resulting images capture these micro-events as momentary
acts of furtive choreography, exploring urban nightfall and our
relationship with everyday urban architecture and attitudes to
personal and public space.
These light drawings - repetitive, decorative and premeditated
- make reference to performative painting such as that of
Jackson Pollock and borrow and explore gestures in the same
way as Fiona Rae. Madeira invites us to engage with these
images as we might an abstract painting, but with the
knowledge they have been made through an elaborate ritual of
nocturnal mischief.
Park Lights
Lambda Print on acrylic
London Gherkin Lights
Lambda Print on acrylic
Banister Light
Lambda Print on acrylic
Lamp Post Lights
Lambda Print on acrylic
London Skyline Lights
Lambda Print on acrylic
For more information on Joe's work including buying his Light Lines limited edition prints please contact The Old Sweet Shop gallery on 020 8871 2272.
