The exhibition is structured as a series of stories about different spaces or models of spaces, united by the idea of light. Light itself is an element that defines a particular moment in a landscape or space and I find it a fascinating force to make art.

Light has no time is related to the physical theory that time slows down as the speed of light is transmitted and stops completely when that speed is reached. Therefore, light itself cannot have time and its motion is outside our tangible reality, even though everything we perceive with our eyes is related to its existence.

In my art and in the spaces that I build as an artist, the idea of an in-between or out-of-between space has often been present. Now, in this exhibition, light is the element that stops these constructions or spaces in moments and makes the buildings into images of moments. If light has no time this moment can be eternal, or act as a blink of an eye between moments. The buildings or spaces in the exhibition are built around these different moments of light.

In his books, Scottish science fiction writer Iain M Banks often describes multi-layered stories, often involving interesting spaces in a fictional future setting. These and similar literary spaces contribute as subconscious memories to the spatial narrative of my works. In the 1930s, two Italian architects designed a monument at Rome’s historic Via Dei Fori Imperial, which remained an unrealised plan and at the same time a strong example of conceptual architecture.

The Danteum, designed by Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Linger, was a building that depicted the journey through hell and heaven in Dante’s Divine Play through the medium of architecture. Although it was an Italian Fascist-era design, it was sophisticated and timeless despite its architectural timidity. The exhibition also includes a model of a kind of monument inspired by elements of Danteum’s building. The Europaeum illustrates the fragility of the structure called Europe today, which is also living in a kind of limbo between war, the rise of the far right, the threat of climate change and its history.