Project

Drawings of Light, Dark Plant

Drawing project

Santiago Chile

From the invisible languages of a memory
Dark Plant I-II-III-IV-V-VI
Drawing of light
95 x 75 cm
Cotton paper and electrical system 110-220VAC 12V
2025

2025

From the invisible languages of a memory - Dark Plant Drawing of light

The series Dibujos de la luz, Planta oscura (Drawings of Light, Dark Plant) is the result of the artist's experience during the exhibition De lo invisible Lenguajes de un recuerdo (Of the Invisible Languages of a Memory), held at the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art in Parque Forestal during August, September, and October 2025.

The installation consisted of points of light rotating in a dark space, configured in six axes. Their centers were extended by radial blades in different sections. Each blade held a number of lights that, as they rotated constantly, shaped the viewers' visual experience, creating an immersive and dynamic environment.
This series of six drawings is a reflection on how space is constructed, how forms intertwine, giving way to new figures, to a geometric, abstract, and constantly reconfiguring language.
This series of six drawings is a reflection on how space is constructed, how forms intertwine, giving way to new figures, to a geometric, abstract language in constant reconfiguration.

In a way, this panoptic image of the dark floor plan portrays the flows of movement and behavior of people in space, light, and its reconfiguration. Cuts and folds are the technique used to configure these sensory experiences with light. This series of drawings is a document that emerges from and complicates the initial project, understanding drawing as an infinity capable of adapting to any medium, time, and space.

As Maya Errázuriz writes in the curatorial text for the exhibition, "Ossa invites us to experience conscious space-time, crossing a series of thresholds guided by our intuition to perhaps answer the big question posed at the beginning of this text: What is invisible about light, what is visible about time? The length of time spent in the darkness will be determined by each visitor's experience, and then they will have to face the challenge of portraying their perception in a drawing through the memory or instant recollection of what they have just experienced."

It is memory that reconstructs this plant and the invisible movement of light in time.