An exhibition in three movements
Light Codes
Light as a language — a largely monochrome exhibition reading the signals that pass between nature, the body, and technology.
The exhibition
Light as a languageLight Codes explores light as a language that connects us all. It is a form of communication that exists first and foremost across nature, our bodies, and our technology. The exhibition asks: how do we “download” and translate these signals?
The experience unfolds through layers of reception. Series of monochromatic works created through layered organic textures and natural pigments made from plants, minerals, soil, crystals, and meteorites. Built slowly, layer by layer, each piece explores the relationship between material, light, and perception — revealing subtle shifts in tone, depth, and atmosphere.
While digital experiments capture the viewer’s pulse in real-time, translating biological rhythms into moving visual waves. This dialogue between the static and the live culminates in a spatial immersion that reconstructs the bioluminescent architecture of a forest at night. Surrounded by these shifting light-traces, the viewer enters a communal organic signal that reveals what is otherwise difficult to see.
Presented at the House of Annetta — a site designed as a living system — the exhibition adds a new layer to the building’s history of response and relation.
Index of works
Seen in person
The question
How do we download and translate the signals that pass between nature, the body, and technology?
Luna-Nera (Portal) · detail
№ 03 / Live · digital
PulseFeedback
Remote photoplethysmography
A digital experiment reads your pulse through a camera and renders it as live ‘pulse prints’ — your own biological rhythm, translated into shifting waves of light. The work only completes itself when you stand before it.
Experienced live · in the room
№ 04 / Spatial · bioluminescence
Firefly Forest
A spatial installation that dissolves a forest and river into darkness through a timelapse of the sun’s descent — revealing a dense, bioluminescent architecture and surrounding the viewer in a communal organic signal.
Installation · in development
№ 05 / How to experience
The visitor is invited to move through Light Codes by slowing down and surrendering to acts of sensing. This may mean looking quietly, breathing more deliberately, noticing shifts in the body, paying attention to pulse, atmosphere, smell, or the subtle emotional charge of a space. Rather than trying to master or decode everything at once, the viewer is invited to notice, allow, and translate — to experience light not as something to dominate, but as something to enter, receive, and feel in return.
Notice·Allow·Translate
Three days
16–18 July 2026- 01 16 July Opening Night Private view & launch Time TBC
- 02 17 July Exhibition Open to the public Time TBC
- 03 18 July Artist-led Workshop A guided, hands-on session Time TBC
In the studio
Process
Artist & curator
Each piece is built slowly — layer over layer of natural pigment, light read and returned through the body and the hand.
Bio to be added.
Full biography to be announced
House of Annetta
Spitalfields, LondonLight Codes is presented at the House of Annetta — the former home of cybernetician Annetta Pedretti, a site historically defined by the study of self-regulating systems and recursive feedback. The exhibition extends the building’s identity as a living, cybernetic organism, adding a new layer to its history of relation and language.
- Dates
- 16–18 July 2026
- Address
- House of Annetta, Spitalfields, London
- Getting there
- Nearest: Liverpool Street & Shoreditch High Street
- Access
- Step-free access information to be confirmed.
- Admission
- Free · by RSVP
Reserve a place
Admission is free and by RSVP. Tell us you're coming and we'll send the details — and a note nearer the time. You can change your plans whenever you like.