Nothing holding us

When the pause button is hit, as it were, the immenseness, violence, and impact of such events suddenly offer us time for reflection. With this artwork, Zamora wants to celebrate the change that can follow. His explosion represents growth or expansion that brings about something beautiful, from the expansion of the universe after the big bang to the sudden opening of a flower with the first rays of sunshine.

As always, Zamora uses very minimal means – merely light tubes, or lines, in a suspended system – to create a large impact in Nothing Holding Us. The light does not move and yet the lines are positioned in a way that the spatial effect is different from every angle. While changing with your movement as a spectator, it remains equally recognisable, as though Zamora uses a simple but universal language of ‘primordial signs’ that can be intuitively understood by everyone.