One More Hour of Light, Collective walk / activation in public space

One More Hour of Light is part of Eidôla, a research project that understands light as something active, almost like a material.

The underlying idea is that there is an intermediate space between what we see and our eyes, and that this is where light carries information. In other words, seeing is not something immediate or fixed, but a process.

For this reason, the works do not represent a landscape in the traditional sense, but rather function as optical devices. They are surfaces and reliefs that capture, deflect, and transform the light of the space.

The work changes constantly depending on the time of day, the intensity of the exterior light, and also on how we move within the space. At certain moments, colour effects may even appear that are not exactly in the piece itself, but are produced through our own perception.

This Saturday, April 11 at 12 pm, the work will be activated outside the exhibition space through a collective walk. The pieces will be taken outdoors to experience what happens to them under direct light, in contact with the street, urban surfaces, and a shared experience.

This greatly expands the meaning of the exhibition, because it shows that perception does not take place only inside the exhibition space, but also in relation to movement, the body, and the city.

Ultimately, the exhibition suggests that landscape is not a fixed image we look at from a distance, but something that is constructed in the very act of seeing.

Curated by Fabrizio Contarino
With the support of Institut de Cultura de Barcelona

Odysseas Yiannikouris (1984) is a visual artist working between France and Barcelona.
His work explores landscape as a form of territorial archaeology, combining photography, installation, drawing, and text. Drawing from architecture and geography, he investigates translocal identities and the invisible dimensions of places in relation to the contemporary ecological crisis.
Trained as an architect, he spent a decade developing a critical perspective on landscape transformation. Following his residency at the Villa Medici in Rome (2017–2018), his practice shifted toward art, questioning the notion of “project.”
His work has been developed across international contexts such as Nature in Solidum (Haut-Jura), Crossroads (Spanish–French border), ¡Viva Villa! (Marseille), and Arte Laguna Prize (Venice).