While light is a traditional symbol of knowledge, Bernardi Roig uses intense, blinding beams of light in his sculptures to spark a conversation about the ways one can become desensitized when bombarded with images from television, the Internet and the various forms of media ubiquitous in contemporary society. Roig’s characters seem attracted to the beams of light like moths, but sometimes their own impulses work against them and they become blinded, even suffocated, by the rays. Take a look at some of Roig’s work below.
