A Series as the Door:
Stephan Tillmans
Nigh Issue 9: Before Meaning
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Series as the Door
There are moments when a trace of the artist becomes more perceptible—not through a single image, but through the quiet accumulation of a series.
Pure intuition, embodied memory, habits that emerge through repetition, fluctuations in thought.
Something unintended seems to linger there, without contour, gently seeping through.
Here, we take one series as an entry point and delve into the artist’s inner terrain.
A Series as the Door / Nigh Magazine
Luminant Point Arrays
Luminant Point Arrays is a photographic series of old tube televisions taken at the very moment they are switched off. The TV picture breaks down and is abstracted to its essential element: light. This abstraction also results in the collapse of the external reference. Each of these photographs is from a different TV, but it’s also the length of exposure, timing, and time the TV has been running before the photo is taken that affects the results.