Sylvan presents a group of  sculptures and photographic collages, utilising the semi translucent walls of the space. The works are results of her current mapping out of the phenomenology of obscurity, suggesting that its ability to simultaneously illuminate and withdraw is what gives the art object its allure. By using an array of different cameras while searching for subtle variations in aesthetics, photography’s grammar has for the artist become a tangible poetry of obscurity – formal, lyrical and social. The lightbulb manufacturer ‘Sylvania’ becomes the artist’s namesake signage that makes way for associations between the Minimalist and Conceptual impulse to tinker with the lights, to the spread of accessible photographic equipment and in extension to art’s availability. Things and words are placed on sliding scales between clear and obscure, opaque and transparent, saturated and monochrome, volume and void, connecting the formal and the affective through the hopelessly subjective that is the eye.

The exhibition is accompanied by a text from writer Rose Higham Stainton titled ‘I Kissed You Because I Loved You for a Minute’.