A Place for light – Alfredo De Stefano
Momentum is pleased to present A Place for Light, a solo exhibition by Mexican
photographer Alfredo De Stefano, bringing together two bodies of work developed
through his long-standing engagement with the desert:
Storm of Light(2008–2018) and Burn (2023–ongoing).
For more than three decades, De Stefano has developed a photographic practice
rooted in desert landscapes, constructing temporary interventions with objects,
structures, natural materials, light, and fire. Across these works, photography becomes
closely connected to the actions and conditions through which the images are made.
In Storm of Light, objects, structures, and human figures are placed within deserts
including the Sahara, Atacama, Namib, Gobi, and Puna. BURN extends this practice
through the use of fire as an active element within the intervention, physically
transforming the objects and structures as they are photographed.
Burn is a photographic and cinematic project that explores fire as a simultaneous force
of destruction and transformation. In these works, objects and elements installed
within the landscape are subjected to fire and photographed at different moments
throughout the process. In parallel, the film expands this exploration through moving
image, sound, and music.
Photography functions not merely as a record of an ephemeral action: it preserves the
instant when matter ceases to be what it was and begins to become something else.
Fire emerges as both memory and the possibility of rebirth—a force capable of
destroying one form while revealing another.
