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Transient Luminous (solo international exhibition)

The works in the exhibition (12 paintings and 1 video work) positioned philosophical ideas surrounding unconventional understandings of temporality and the potential of the moment in relation to light. Residing with Martin Heidegger’s distinction between time and the temporal, this body of work challenges both the notion of what constitutes conventional understandings of the temporal and linear time through the juxtaposition of works.

The work offers a critique of the metaphysics of presence through the play of light in the video works. This research connects to previous concerns in its interrogation of philosophical and artistic concepts surrounding what constitutes time and becoming extending it through an original exploration of how light might disrupt ontological suppositions. In this body of work Roulstone has considered light, states of becoming and the complexities of the way in which absence might signify. Implicit in this has been an engagement with the moment (Augenblick) and its status of being as undetermined or unfixed. These ideas have been visually explored through notions of spectrality, moments of emergence and disappearance, concealment and revelation. The light oscillates and moves registering on different levels of conscious/psychic recognition whilst creating strange spatial and temporal possibilities.