TRACE OF LIGHT
Lishui photography festival 2025
TRACE OF LIGHT brings together for the first time in China the works of Clara Garrido, Maria Pujol and Vitor Schietti —three artists who approach photography as a living encounter between light and consciousness.
In Trace of Light, three contemporary artists open a poetic dialogue between body, time, and luminous matter. Through photography, the medium that captures the instant and transforms it into permanence, the three authors reveal the tension between the ephemeral and the eternal, between intuition and technique, between human perception and the invisible trace left by light.
Their research emerges from manual experimentation and an intimate relationship with the environment. Each, through their own language, approaches photography not as documentation but as a sensory and physical experience. Gesture, movement, and duration become tools to sculpt light, tracing a territory where time expands and vision becomes matter.
In an age dominated by artificial intelligence and the infinite reproduction of images, Trace of Light reclaims the human presence in visual creation. In these works, light ceases to be information and returns to being experience. It is no longer an algorithm but an emotion; not a mechanical reading, but a trace of consciousness.
Each piece reminds us that seeing is also an act of feeling, and that photography—beyond its technical dimension—remains a space where time, body and memory converge in a single vibration of light.
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Located in the heart of the city, the Lishui Photography Museum stands as one of China’s most emblematic institutions dedicated to the photographic arts. Its architecture, both monumental and serene, reflects the city’s deep connection with the history and evolution of photography. Recognized as a cultural landmark, the museum hosts some of the country’s most prestigious exhibitions, bringing together established masters and emerging voices from around the world.
More than just an exhibition space, the Lishui Photography Museum is a living archive of visual culture —a place where tradition and experimentation coexist. Within its luminous halls, the dialogue between artists and audiences unfolds in silence and reflection, allowing each work to reveal the poetry of light that defines the spirit of contemporary photography.
It is within this context that Trace of Light finds its resonance: a project that honors the museum’s legacy by exploring light not only as a visual phenomenon, but as a bridge between emotion, perception and time.
ARTISTS
CLARA GARRIDO (Colombia)
MARIA PUJOL (Barcelona)
VITOR SCHIETTI (Brasil)
CURATED BY
EAST WEST
SPECIAL GUEST 2025
THOMAS RUFF
DATES
07.11.2025 - 11.11.2025
LOCATION
Lishui Internationl Photography Museum
Lishui, China
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
CLARA GARRIDO
Clara Garrido is a London-based Colombian experimental photographer who channels the playful curiosity of the inner child into her work. Her practice is a return to the primal joy of making, where light, form, and imagination collide like a game invented in an empty environment.
Clara travels to remote landscapes and surrenders to instinct, treating her camera as both toy and tool. Through light painting, photomontage, and long exposures without AI, she builds human-crafted illusions, worlds that feel dreamlike.
Her work is a love letter to process itself: a universe where the environment dissolves into abstraction. Every image is a testament to the artist as the eternal child who continued playing for all of us who still believe in magic.
MARIA PUJOL
Maria Pujol is a Barcelona-based Catalan photographer whose work explores the emotional resonance of the spaces we inhabit. Her images emerge from an expressive dialogue between architecture, light, and perception, where intuition and technique converge.
Through series like VIBRA — My Dialogues with the Geometry of the Building, she reveals architecture as a living organism—dynamic, breathing, and responsive to human presence. Her photography captures the invisible vibration between body and space, transforming static structures into encounters filled with rhythm and sensitivity.
Rooted in both experimentation and instinct, Maria’s work turns the act of seeing into an act of feeling, inviting the viewer to experience architecture as something profoundly alive and poetic.
VITOR SCHIETTI
Vitor Schietti is a Brazilian photographer based in Barcelona whose work explores the boundary between dream and reality. Using long exposure, multiple exposure, and light painting, he transforms ordinary scenes into surreal visual experiences that evoke memory and imagination.
Born in Brasília in 1986, Schietti holds a degree in Social Communication and has exhibited internationally across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. His celebrated series Impermanent Sculptures exemplifies his fascination with time, movement, and transformation. Also active as a filmmaker and advocate for animal rights, Schietti continues to develop a visual language where light becomes both subject and metaphor—an ever-shifting trace of human perception.
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