OF LIGHT AND LINGER: DU QUANG I WIKING SALON

Throughout the history of art, capturing light has never been merely a study in realism. Light has always been more than illumination — it is meaning, mood, and presence. Across centuries, medium light has been used to guide the eye and stir the soul: the soft glow of intimacy to the stark flash of revelation and the slow fade of time passing. This exhibition brings together artists who treat light not only as an aesthetic device, but as a subject in itself. It is used to stretch time, to soften memory, to hold longing. It is the suggestion of a figure out of frame, the echo of a window just out of view, the afterglow of something already gone. 

To linger with light is to accept its temporality. Their works ask us to linger—with stillness, with attention—on what light does when we allow it to unfold: to graze, to recede, to hold. Light here is not fixed or dramatic, but suggestive, quiet, and often tender. It becomes a way to explore absence, transience, and emotional resonance. Whether conjuring memory, guiding a figure, marking loss, or celebrating the body, light here shapes the emotional and symbolic terrain of each work. In all of them, light is a language — abstract yet intimate — speaking of what hovers just beyond words.