Residency at Bauhaus Lab 2025
The Bauhaus Lab 2025 at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is a three-month program that explores the hidden infrastructures of electric light, tracing its material, spatial, and political dimensions. The residency ends with an exhibition entirely curated and built by the interational Bauhaus Lab team, of which I am part.
Exhibition 31.07.2025 / 01.03.2026
After modern brightness: Ecologies of light
The exhibition centres on Marianne Brandt’s ME 94 lamp, revealing how it embodies complex intersections between scientific innovation, industrial capitalism, mass production, and environmental transformation tied to global electrification. A century later, modern brightness continues to shape us. The exhibition exposes the often-invisible electrical grid and the sites — from mines to laboratories to cities like Dessau, Berlin, and Chemnitz — where light is produced and consumed. The scenography reflects circular principles, using reclaimed materials and dormant solar panels to question the material cost of even renewable energy. Brandt’s haunting question — “How far are You pushing it, Human?” — frames the deeper inquiry: can we design light beyond extraction, beyond the biological and ecological harm of constant illumination?
Artwork
Vocal Photosynthesis: Flower
Vocal Photosynthesis captures the entangled emergence of light and sound: ephemeral, unpredictable, and alive. Developed through a method that harnesses physical forces, the work inscribes sound, music, and the singing voice through light itself, capturing the invisible. Drawing on the psychophysics of energy and the history of vitalism, the piece reflects on the human body as receiver, transmitter, and co-agent within the electromagnetic field of the world. Electricity becomes audible when it touches matter: sound announces its presence. As theorist Gretchen Bakke asks how to make the invisible visible and how to store instantaneity, Vocal Photosynthesis captures melodies through light, revealing the skeleton of the music. It proposes a perceptual attunement that repositions humans as immersed, responsive, and interdependent, inviting an ecological mode of sensing in which energy, body, and world are inextricably entangled.