Ronél de Jager’s debut solo exhibition, After Midnight, forms part of her larger ongoing project exploring the transformative power inherent in the constant, shifting presence of cast shadows and filtered light. Taking her cue from the Oxford Dictionary definition of ‘A.M.’ meaning ‘between midnight and midday’, shadows become a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of reality, a world both present and absent, simultaneously formed and diffused by the play of light in the hours extending across night and day.

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This multi-media, multi-spatial exhibition unfolds in three parts, spanning a series of divergent spaces. As each new element of the project is unveiled, its previous incarnations exist in memory.

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Across this evolving body of work, the recording and capturing of light acts as a register of moments of silence, movement, flux, transition and metamorphosis. As the works develop over time and across location, images might trigger recollections of the experiences, images and spaces gone before. In this way, De Jager’s artworks, like the traces of light from which they evolve, become fragments of a greater whole – chance encounters that either resonate and linger, or are seen and forgotten.