Light Kissing
'Light Kissing' (Andrea Jaeger, 2022) explores the unique aesthetic potential of cyan fogging—a phenomenon that occurs when photosensitive C-type paper interacts with non-image-forming light. Through a series of eight cyan-fogged photographic artefacts, Jaeger challenges conventional ideas of representation, reproducibility, and photographic defect. Each piece, marked by subtle and singular cyan traces, embodies its own making, revealing an interplay between light, material, and process.
This minimalist installation invites viewers to slow down, observe closely, and engage with the work’s tactile and three-dimensional qualities. The gently curling, unfixed paper pieces augment rather than occupy space, prompting multi-sensory experiences and opening new ways of seeing.
Anchored in post-humanist and materialist thought, Light Kissing foregrounds the agency of non-human agents—light, the Chromira printing machine, and paper—as active participants in the production of non-images. The series reframes cyan fogging as a deliberate aesthetic event, subverting its categorisation as a mere ‘defect’ and celebrating its one-off, unpredictable nature.
Documentation and audience responses confirm the work’s ability to evoke introspection and multisensory discovery, offering a tangible exploration of photography as both process and material. Light Kissing offers a meditative experience that blurs the boundaries between photography, sculpture, and installation, revealing the aesthetic beauty in what might otherwise be overlooked.