Nicky Coutts
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Empire of Lights 2007
video, 18mn
| The Empire of Lights is named after René Magritte's series of paintings where night and day are combined in a single image. In this video Nicky Coutts merges dawn and dusk in moving image. The setting is Floors Castle in the Scottish Borders, which has 365 windows, one for every day of the year; two unseen participants turn on all the lights in the castle one by one as darkness falls while dawn improbably rises in the sky behind. |