2025.11.15 － 2025.12.14
1111 project: Waiting for Solstice by SHYU Hsin
When night is no longer dark, can time still be recognized?
In the summer of 2024, artist SHYU Hsin spent two months in residence in Reykjavík, Iceland.
“In the far north, where there is light, there is color and warmth; without it, everything sinks into a heavy, oppressive gloom. The uninterrupted light of summer blurs day and night, as if one were living inside a single, endless day. Even after sleeping and waking, the world beyond the window remains bright.”
For one month leading up to the summer solstice, she stood on her balcony at midnight each day, facing the sea, mechanically releasing the shutter. “Midnight Sun”—a paradox in itself. If the sky stays bright, can it still be called night?
She photographs, waits, gazes—almost to verify that time continues to move, and also to search for the very boundary of “night,” a concept constructed by human perception.
This experience ultimately became the work Waiting for Solstice. Drawing from memory, SHYU translates the indescribable shades of the Icelandic sky into monoprints, using light in place of ink to project the image onto paper. As hand-rolled color merges with black-and-white imagery, within the repetition and variation inherent to printmaking, one wonders: did the long-awaited Godot finally arrive?
One room, one work, one encounter.
Between stillness and motion, constancy and flux, the work continues to echo that long, luminous midnight.
Event: Artist on site | SHYU Hsin “1111 project: Waiting for Solstice”
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