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.