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Light is a retrospective tracing Elena Narbutaitė’s engagement with lasers and LEDs, presenting works from 2013 to today.

Laser and LED are two distinct forms of light, each with their own rhythm and resonance. A laser’s beam is a sharpened line, its waves perfectly in phase – a coherence that gives it the power to cut, measure and guide. The LED, by contrast, is an unfolding glow, its photons out of step, its wavelengths blending into a spectrum that shifts and scatters. One involves focused precision, the other a dispersed field of color. Both are familiar from situations as diverse as the vibrant pulse of a party, the targeting of warfare, the beam that holds an electronic door ajar, or the silent transfer of data. Narbutaitė reconfigures these ubiquitous associations, reimagining the cold precision of industrial lasers and the ambient shifting hues of LEDs into something unbound.