Image: Still from Yuyan Wang, Look On the Bright Side, 2024. Courtesy the artist.
Emmelines
53rd St & 5th Ave Subway Station
Each year, the last Sunday of October marks the final week of manufactured daylight in the United States.
On Sunday, October 25, 2026, Amant’s current exhibition Sentient Earth brings Yuyan Wang’s Look On the Bright Side to the subway mezzanine below 53rd St & 5th Ave in Manhattan. Following a 2018 proposal to send three new moons into orbit above Chinese cities to provide continuous daylight, the 17-minute film gathers a makeshift genealogy of artificial light: a constellation of found footage traversing cavernous underground landscapes, LED factories, and our illuminated urban present.
The film will begin at Emmelines at 6:01pm, sundown, and play continuously seven times, until 8pm.
Yuyan Wang (b. China, based in Paris) is a filmmaker and video artist, and her film Green Grey Black Brown (2024) is currently on view in the group exhibition, Sentient Earth at Amant. Wang completed her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016 and later at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in 2022. Her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, UCCA Beijing, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as the Berlinale International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, the European Media Art Festival, receiving numerous awards