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. 

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. 

De Jager’s practice utilises diverse mediums ranging from Painting, Video and Public Art installations, to depict her perspective on light, shadows, movement, time and the nature of the transcendental, ephemeral and intangible. The mediums and contexts in which the work is displayed play a fundamental role in the narrative thus echoing her aim to capture an ever-evolving moment and/slice of time, as the artists states :” …fleetingness of memory, its flashes, and the process of becoming aware of the movement of time and the elusiveness of the memory of images.”