73. ANTHONY McCALL: A SPACE BETWEEN MIRAGE AND EXISTENCE.

Anthony McCall, Solid Light, Tate Modern - LONDON.

Anthony McCall, Smoke Screen III, 2017. Courtesy of artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery.

To glide as a ring - as to become a drawing - within the pages of spliced circles and pointed spires.

To watch the air - become visible in swathes - as the motes of sand flow within a chamber of still. 

Image: Kyung Hwa Shon.

As a flash of an eclipse - the corona impossible - to kiss and part as a diagram divides, as the Vitruvian turns, pressing down and turning back.

Presence of the invisible - as air plumes in the inky soft of a darkness created - to become embedded as a scratched line - as a rain of electric - as a ruthless calm. To distill a consequence of a speed of light - as a disturbance of science.

To watch a puppetry of shadows - mime discovery - to explore the edge of a ray as a skins illusion - as a levitating sheer - as a mirage of existence.

A commune of sitters - watch - in awe within this tented intimacy, solemn and sheltered. As to moon bathe beneath - this synthetic synthesis of a starless sky - taught sheer within a loom of lunar threads.

To reach forth and pluck at strings of light with diversive curiosity - expectant of sound - yet met with a silence of imagined particles, as granules of erasure - remove the surface of a page.

Image: Kyung Hwa Shon.

Anthony McCall: Solid Light - Tate Modern - Until 27 April 2025.

Special thanks: Anna Overment at Tate Modern and Kyung Hwa Shon.