A light fitting and wiring from a pedestrian underpass, with wiring at one end visibly cut. The wiring maintains its position despite being removed from the architecture, thus implying the absent architectural context. The light continues to remain on, creating a paradoxical and surreal situation. From email corresspondance with the artist : "...It's a light source divorced fro the building but also maybe from its power source and I think its an attempt to try and make something float whilst being attached to the ground...The main thing I remember from being in a subway is that type of quality of light that’s generated in these spaces - but in this case with the space removed. So it's trying to make some ostensible object of some sort, but im sure thinking back that its possibly to do with a painting I saw in Rome when I was about nineteen or something, which was "The Calling of St Matthew" by Caravaggio. As I remember, but I don’t think I was looking at this at the time, but saw a reproduction of it the other day and do remember looking at it for a while...and it has this light source framing the whole scene, so it was to try and use this somehow but to try and make it more lonely....when all the actors have left.."

Richard Rigg

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Richard Rigg

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