Into the Light

Into the Light by Julia Carrillo is a light installation that engages with the phenomenon of how light and water interact together to split the light spectrum, producing a rainbow effect.

The artwork engages with the movement of water and how light interacts with it. When it is stable it projects the image of a stable rainbow. There is an intermittent drip of water that causes the reflected light to disseminate and to morph between white light and rainbow.

For sanitary purposes, please refrain from touching the water. Instead, observe the drip system that occurs roughly every 10 seconds. Watch how a little disruption can create a new perspective on how to view the piece.

In 2019, Julia Carrillo lived for a few months in Seoul during an artist residency at the Korea Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. In Seoul, the modern accent of an Asian capital coexists with surprising natural landscapes inserted in the dynamics of the city itself. On one of her daily walks along a river, she noticed that at a certain time of day light patterns were projected onto a nearby bridge.

The river water acted as a dynamic mirror. She took advantage of those lighting conditions to move her studio to this setting and she brought some of her work objects with the intention of recreating something she had imagined: a water prism. Then she reconstructed these conditions in her studio and developed a work based on the interaction of water with a beam of light.

Julia Carrillo studied Mathematics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a master’s in visual arts at the Academia de San Carlos, later she studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York (SVA).

She relates her artistic practice with notions derived from mathematics and physics to construct an approach to natural phenomena, such as the transformation of space, the movements of light, the travels of sound and the dynamics of fluid forces.

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