It is hard to describe being, especially being with someone. What is hidden in the body is sometimes elusive, often contained in gestures, in sheer presence.
When darkness falls, we are unable to see each other, but we still know that we are together. It is accepted that the path towards light is a journey towards enlightenment.
If I embrace something with my gaze – I will get to know it, if I know something – I will understand it. Western culture has permanently seized upon the sun’s rays and its warmth to its advantage, equating it with intellectual cognition. Reason has pushed aside the sensuality of the body, its fleshiness and relationality.
Lightworkers is an experiential-artistic situation arranged by Piotr Lewandowski
in the space of the Rodriguez Foundation, which deconstructs the symbolism of light encoded in Western culture. It ceases to be something external, distant from man.
In the artist’s interpretation, it results from being itself.