Lucas Leffler

Lucas Leffler directs his explorations towards the mineral and chemical qualities of silver in his re-enactments of August Strindberg's celestographies (1893-1894) or Lilly Kolisko's silver nitrate experiments. Like the playwright Strindberg, Lucas Leffler examines the issues of alchemy and anthroposophy, questioning the long inherited processes and materials, and with them the place of humans and their rituals within their own history, discovering the quality of the links thus created. In order to demonstrate that our perception of the world is an illusion, as it is subject to the limits of our eye and its construction, Strindberg directly exposed photographic plates to the moon, sun and stars, to make an "X-ray of the constellated sky", as if photography could capture their hidden nature. In this series, Lucas Leffler opts for an exposure to the light of the moon.

Yuna Mathieu-Chovet