How many times will you watch the full moon rise

Solo Exhibition 2026.01.03 - 2026.01.31

CYAN Mørkeromgalleri, Oslo, Norway

The moon has always been the most inspiring light. In the book Dream of the Red Chamber, two architectures within the Chinese garden were built for gaze of the moon. One is the Convex Pavilion, perched atop a hill for those who delight in seeing the mountains rise high while the moon appears small beside them. Another is the Concave Pavilion, resting by the water for those who love the moon mirrored on its clear surface.

One turns the gaze upward, the other downward; yet both are vessels for reverence — architectures built not merely to look at the moon, but to dwell in its light. In their mirrored gestures of ascent and descent, the moon becomes an opening, a portal through which one’s own quietness may pass.

Here, where the darkroom meets the lightroom, another kind of vessel has been created. A series of luminograms await to be encountered, stared at, and drifted into. Their mingling hues, uncertain forms, and shifting clarity invite each viewer to wander elsewhere — to a landscape of their own making, through a glowing circular portal, like the full moon itself.

The title is appropriated from The Sheltering Sky written by Paul Bowles.