Nancy Holt
1973
LoGiudice Gallery, New York
650 watt quartz lights, polyurethane board, graphite
© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Holes of Light consists of a room bisected by a wall, which is perforated with eight circular holes arranged along a diagonal. Two lights are located on either side of the wall, and an alternating current switches between them so that one side of the room is dark and the other light. The projections of light are outlined on the walls so that the shapes are alluded to, even when they cannot be seen. The work generates a dynamic experience of the relationships between viewer and art object, practical and perceived, sensory and conceptual.