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Perfectly clear turrell9/4/2023 As he admits, there is a light of orientation, a philosophical light. Regarding the latter, Laruelle wishes to discover the non-orientable nature of light. Regarding the former, Laruelle asserts that we must think perception not think about perception. Laruelle’s essay on Turrell makes two essential claims, one about perception and the other about light. But is it possible to see light in itself, not in relation to a perceived object? Is it possible to manifest the rigorously immanent genericness of light itself? “But what will manifest the light?” 4 Systems of representation reveal aspects of the world to perceiving subjects this is how light makes manifest. For Laruelle, Turrell’s art work poses a basic problem. It represents the very core principles of the non-standard method. No object, no image, no focus-no wonder Laruelle was drawn to First Light. With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at?” 3Indeed the object of First Light is perception itself, as Turrell was the first to admit. “I am dealing with no image, because I want to avoid associative, symbolic thought… I am dealing with no focus or particular place to look. “I am dealing with no object,” Turrell said in a lecture a few years after producing First Light. The effect, from print to print, is tracelike and mesmerizing.” 2 In the installation, with light projected onto the images, the shapes appear to glow and float viewed in sequence, they seem to move. Designed to stand alone as prints, First Light nevertheless acts as a kind of backward glance revisiting and meditating on earlier corner light projections made by Turrell in the late 1960s, in particular works like Afrum-Pronto(1967).įor the exhibition of First Light at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1990, “the aquatints arranged in groups based on the white shape that hovers in the dense black field of each print. 1 While it briefly mentions Turrell’s Roden Crater and is cognizant of his other work, the essay focuses on a series of twenty aquatint etchings made by Turrell called First Light (1989-1990). In the early 1990s François Laruelle wrote an essay on James Turrell, the American artist known for his use of light and space. From First Light, James Turrell, 1989-90 by Alexander R.
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