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LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS

Grimanesa Amorós LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, 128 x 28 x 19-foot series of light sculptures made of polycarbonate bubble domes handmade from individual molds and silkscreened with totora reed imagery, illuminated from within and arranged as floating islands that shift from ethereal glow to solid mass as natural light changes throughout the day. Exhibited at Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
Grimanesa Amorós LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, 128 x 28 x 19-foot series of light sculptures made of polycarbonate bubble domes handmade from individual molds and silkscreened with totora reed imagery, illuminated from within and arranged as floating islands that shift from ethereal glow to solid mass as natural light changes throughout the day. Exhibited at Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
Grimanesa Amorós LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, 128 x 28 x 19-foot series of light sculptures made of polycarbonate bubble domes handmade from individual molds and silkscreened with totora reed imagery, illuminated from within and arranged as floating islands that shift from ethereal glow to solid mass as natural light changes throughout the day. Exhibited at Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
Grimanesa Amorós LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, 128 x 28 x 19-foot series of light sculptures made of polycarbonate bubble domes handmade from individual molds and silkscreened with totora reed imagery, illuminated from within and arranged as floating islands that shift from ethereal glow to solid mass as natural light changes throughout the day. Exhibited at Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
Grimanesa Amorós LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, 128 x 28 x 19-foot series of light sculptures made of polycarbonate bubble domes handmade from individual molds and silkscreened with totora reed imagery, illuminated from within and arranged as floating islands that shift from ethereal glow to solid mass as natural light changes throughout the day. Exhibited at Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
Grimanesa Amorós LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, 128 x 28 x 19-foot series of light sculptures made of polycarbonate bubble domes handmade from individual molds and silkscreened with totora reed imagery, illuminated from within and arranged as floating islands that shift from ethereal glow to solid mass as natural light changes throughout the day. Exhibited at Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
Grimanesa Amorós LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, 128 x 28 x 19-foot series of light sculptures made of polycarbonate bubble domes handmade from individual molds and silkscreened with totora reed imagery, illuminated from within and arranged as floating islands that shift from ethereal glow to solid mass as natural light changes throughout the day. Exhibited at Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013.
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Location: Litvak Gallery | Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013
Project Room: video animation
Music by: Ivri Lider – The Young Professionals
Essay by: Jane Farver
128 feet 4 in x 28 feet 10 in x 19 feet 8 in
LEDs, diffusion material, custom lighting sequence, electrical hardware.

LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS is a 128-foot immersive light installation presented at Litvak Gallery in Tel Aviv, its scattered constellation of illuminated polycarbonate domes evoking the floating totora reed islands of Lake Titicaca in Amorós’s most expansive and intimate presentation of the Uros series to date.

  • BBC (2013) covered LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, bringing international broadcast attention to Amorós’s first solo exhibition in Israel and affirming the work’s resonance across both the contemporary art world and the broader cultural conversation around Indigenous heritage, light, and memory.
  • Art critic Lilly Wei conducted an extended interview with Amorós for the exhibition, published in the catalogue alongside an essay by curator and critic Jane Farver, who wrote that Amorós views her art as a gift to others, situating the work within a generous and expansive understanding of the public role of art.
  • The exhibition featured domes of varying sizes, from monumental to intimate, each hand-constructed from a different mold and silkscreened with imagery reminiscent of totora reeds, their LED interiors shifting throughout the day as natural light from the gallery’s front window altered the quality and character of the entire installation.
  • The video component MIRANDA, presented in the gallery’s project room with a soundtrack composed by Ivri Lider of The Young Professionals, marked Amorós’s first major collaboration with a musician, expanding the work’s sensory reach into sound.
  • LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS received coverage in BBC, AT Magazine, and A Women’s Thing (all 2013), affirming its significance as a landmark moment in Amorós’s international exhibition history and her first major institutional presence in the Middle East.

    • LIGHT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS, a continuation of the UROS HOUSE series. It is an installation by Grimanesa Amoros includes glowing dorms as islands of varying sizes, whose interiors are illuminated by a programmed lighting sequence.

    As the viewer encounters the work, Amoros transmits a feeling of temporariness, magic, and wonder, together with her desire to preserve memory, sites, and landscapes. In her work, the past meets the future.

    Description: Light Between The Islands is an installation that includes islands of shimmering white bubbles, composed of various sizes, handmade from a different mold, and with drawings silkscreened over each of their surfaces. The bubbles that form the installations are a part of modular units and layers. Amoros multiplies and arranges the units into structures that could become monumental in scale, all the while appearing to be weightless.

    The appearance of the artworks will change as the light that streams through the gallery’s front window changes throughout the day. Sometimes the installation will seem buoyant and ethereal, while at other times it will appear to be a solid mass. In any guise, she intends Light Between The Islands to convey a sense of wonder and playfulness. As visitors walk around, they will encounter and react to the presence and magic of her beloved Uros Islands in Lake Titicaca.

    Litvak Gallery, founded in 2008, expanded its reach in early 2012 by representing artists of all media with showcases of contemporary Israeli and international artists.

    The article by Jane Farver can be read here.

    An article by BBC can be read here.