Sharjah’s Light Show sees light in a different dimension

A world-class art exhibition, spanning five decades of works, is an illuminating experience for visitors in Sharjah.

Light Show, which opened yesterday at Sharjah Art Foundation and runs until December 5, presents light used in sculptures, as installation, as pure colour and even as optical illusion.

Weaving in and out of the six art spaces that inhabit Sharjah’s Al Mareija district, just off the city’s Corniche, a visitor is drawn to the artworks like a moth to a flame. They command attention and dictate the pace of the show in a way that is rare with art in any other format.

It doesn’t matter in which room you begin; you can spend hours exploring the spaces, becoming mesmerised and letting your senses guide you.

Light Show is a travelling exhibition that began in London’s Hayward Gallery in 2013 and was shown in Auckland and Sydney before arriving in Sharjah. The original idea, says Cliff Lauson, the show’s curator, was to focus on “light as a sculptural object, and how it commands space”, as well as the “ingrained physiological responses” we have to light.

Original article by Anna Seaman

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Sharjah’s Light Show sees light in a different dimension