This exhibition looks at light through material, image and space. Across the selected works, light can reveal or erase an image, change how a surface is seen, or shape our experience of a landscape.

The exhibition considers what light does: what it makes visible, what it obscures, and how it can transform an image or material. Ideas of movement, distance and shifting perspectives also connect the exhibition to the wider theme of Light + Flight.

Featured Artists

John Costi

Ozgul Arslan

Alaa Shasheet

Divya Sharma

Freya Gascoyne

Julie-Yara Atz

Francesco Poiana

Leena Habiballa

Curated by Gözde Altun, a London based curator working across exhibitions, public programmes and socially engaged projects. Her curatorial interests include materiality, memory, and collective storytelling.

She holds an MA in Curating Art and Public Programmes, developed in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, and an LLM in International Intellectual Property Law from Brunel University London. She currently works at Whitechapel Gallery across exhibitions, public programmes and operations, alongside developing independent curatorial projects.

Recent projects include INODYSSEY (2025), an Arts Council England supported exhibition and public programme exploring migration, belonging and collective memory through the work of eight contemporary artists at Campbell Works, London. She is currently curating Özgül Arslan’s upcoming solo exhibition, opening in March 2027.

Image credit: Work by John Costi. Photo by Christa Holka