Single-channel digital video; 1080 × 1350 px, 4:5; 12 seconds; 24 fps; silent loop; unique work, 1/1.
Residual Light performs a retinal afterimage fading in real time. A blue rectangle, the ghost of a phone screen just looked at, floats in darkness and decays for twelve seconds: the edges first, then the body of the light, then a trace, then black. The phone never appears. What is shown is not a device but a perception: the light that stays in the body after the screen is gone.
For many of us, this is now the last light of the day: not the sun, not a candle, but a phone. When the screen goes dark, the body keeps broadcasting it. The phenomenon is universal, free, and repeated nightly by billions of people, yet it goes almost entirely unnoticed. The work does not invent it. The work notices it, names it, and lets it die at full attention.
Artist statement: I make work about the media we live inside without noticing, the way we live inside weather. In this work the screen is gone, and its light is still in the body.
