Peering at Faint Lights in  the Distance




Peering at Faint Lights in the Distance emerges from a period marked by physical vulnerability and perceptual instability. The works bring together painting and sculpture to explore states of descent, enclosure, and fragile orientation.








Peering at Faint Lights in the Distanct
2016 
 Oil on canvas, slate, ibeam, roller-chain, wood, pebbles from concrete.

Developed during the artist’s time in New York, the series reflects a moment in which the body, environment, and memory became increasingly entangled. Materials such as slate, steel, and concrete introduce weight and containment, while painted surfaces hold shifting fields that hover between emergence and disappearance.

Throughout the work, a tension persists between darkness and illumination. The “faint lights” referenced in the title are not sources of clarity, but distant points of orientation—suggesting a minimal, persistent direction within uncertainty.

The works remain suspended in this in-between state, where perception is unsettled and meaning is continuously in flux.














 
 

        







       



 

  

       









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© Jenna Basso Pietrobon

France — Italy