LIGHT TRAPS (2024-

“This work is as much about your seeing as it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile. I form it as much as the material allows. I am trying to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.”

The Light Traps are an extension of a series of ephemeral material investigations undertaken during 2019/2020 whilst on residency in Orquevaux (Northern France) where the artist created a series of textile sculptures with the intent of working with light as both medium and collaborator.

This series was created in response to an invitation by CRAFT Victoria to create work for LUMINOSITY - and explore the relational quality of light through material practice.

It was a natural progression to move the ephemeral exploration of silk begun in the North of France into the white box of the gallery space. Silk possesses a lustre that is unlike all other natural textiles – its luminous appearance is due to the triangular prism-like structure of the silk fibre, which allows the cloth to refract incoming light at different angles, thus producing shimmer and colour, as well as enabling both the "trapping of" and ability to appear to "emanate" light.

Anastasia La Fey’s work with textiles is deeply rooted in the shared connection of humans to cloth - second to human touch, our first tactile experience is with cloth, thus we have a deep, subconscious, and often emotional relationship to it.

The works are intended to appear as both object and creature.

The works are currently on exhibition until September 21st as part of LUMINOSITY at CRAFT Victoria

All sales enquiries of this series to CRAFT Victoria and site-responsive commissions are available via consultation.