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Galleries: A cultural light on the horizon – Lumen/Dark Skies Festival, An Lanntair


Sarah Urwin Jones
And so we creep out of the long winter towards the dawn light of spring and the prospect of seeing the people and places from which we have been so long separated. As if to cement it, on 13 April, another of Scotland s art galleries – An Lanntair in Stornoway - opens its real world doors to the public, the farther isles showing those of us on the mainland the cultural light on the horizon.
Appropriate then that this exhibition, part of An Lanntair s Dark Skies festival, which has largely been confined to the internet and our back gardens this last month, should be about the “philosophical and ecological importance of a clear view of our galaxy.” The upwards view of the night sky, however occluded or clear, however city-bound or big skied, was one of the shared human experiences in the lockdowns of the last year for those who chose to look up, and it is key to the ethos of Lumen, the London-based artist collective focused on astronomy and light ....

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