Dark into Light is an installation of 100 photo-sensitive lights, accompanied by a lightbox and a limited-edition artist's book featuring a phosphorescent screenprinted cover.

In darker quarters of Swarm ... is the inventive installation (essentially a large piece and a smaller one) by Christine Wong Yap titled Dark Into Light. Her larger work studies the balance between absence and presence.... By blocking one light source, another is triggered, creating a vacuum of light that the work keeps balanced autonomously....

...Wong Yap uses—and meaningfully repeats—the starburst shape, with precise formation of lights. This shape could be a firework, star, spark, or a tree—in any case, it speaks of dissipation of energy and outward movement.

...A light box ... is comparatively understated and nebulous.... What results from pulling the string (and maybe pulling it a minute later) is more profound in tandem with the larger piece and is a curious tangential play on absence and temporality, making this a sweet, clean, but provocative Project Space experience.

—Andy Richie, Artslant

Dark into Light was exhibited at Swarm Gallery in 2008 and in Tech Tools of the Trade at de Saisset Museum in 2009.

Images

1. Dark into Light, 2008, mixed media installation: 100 night lights, par can, spot bulb, 10 x 10 x 8 feet / 3 x 3 x 2.4 m
2. Interactive view
3. Dark into Light (lightbox; documentation of on/off phases), 2008, light box with phosphorescent screen print, 12.5 x 16.5 x 6 inches / 32 x 42 x 15 cm.
4. Documentation of Dark into Light (installation and lightbox), 2008. Available on Vimeo.
5. Documentation of Dark into Light (multiple), 2008, screenprint, laser print, thread, 4 x 4 inches / 10 x 10 cm. Available on Vimeo.