carlier | gebauer, Berlin, is pleased to present the group exhibition Shine a Light, featuring works by Sebastián Díaz Morales, Dor Guez, Lúcia Koch, Paul Pfeiffer, Laure Prouvost, Jessica Rankin and Nida Sinnokrot.

Light is inseparable from the act of seeing, but what it reveals is never fixed. It can sharpen our attention, distort what lies before us, transform a space, or make something perceptible that might otherwise go unnoticed. Across the exhibition, light takes on different material and metaphorical forms, becoming a means through which the artists explore perception, visibility, memory, emotion, and possibility.

In the presented photographs, sculptures, and drawings, light is both subject and active element. Sebastián Díaz Morales uses light to construct images that exist somewhere between the visible and the imagined. This presented fragment from a 47-shot video Oracle has been recreated as a light-box drawing, functioning like a reverse storyboard. Dor Guez explores visibility, memory, and trace in his series Khobiza, where wild plants gathered during times of hunger and war are preserved between drying and decay, appearing almost as fragile human silhouettes and becoming testimonies of survival and loss. Lúcia Koch alters the relationship between light and architecture, using colour, scale, and modified structures to unsettle our experience of space. Laure Prouvost similarly plays with perception through reflection, creating images that shift as the viewer moves around them, blurring the boundary between reality and fiction.

Paul Pfeiffer’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a famous photo series derived from Albrecht Dürer´s eponymous woodcuts. The photos show individual basketball players in front of the spectators, freed from all identifying features, in triumphant, thunderous poses. His work examines how the gaze can transform athletes into figures of devotion and admiration. In Jessica Rankin’s work, light enters through language and poetry, carrying associations of guidance and hope. Nida Sinnokrot’s Flight – Jalazone takes this idea into the open air, where tiny LED lights attached to pigeons from local coops send waves of light across the sky becoming gestures of freedom and possibility.

Rather than offering a single understanding of light, the exhibition brings together different ways of encountering it: as something physical and intangible, intimate and expansive, fleeting and persistent. What appears in one work as reflection may become atmosphere in another, while elsewhere light functions as a trace, a signal, or a way of imagining what is not yet visible.

The works ask us to remain attentive to the conditions through which things become visible, carrying the gaze from one work to another and creating a path through the exhibition. In shifting between what is revealed and what is withheld, Shine a Light leaves perception open-ended. The experience becomes less a matter of finding a definitive image than of allowing our understanding to change with the way we look.