City of Light - Yiile - Spring 2025
🔹 Edition: Signed by the artist - Limited to 30 numbered copies
🔹 Support: Inkjet printing on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Matt Baryta paper
🔹 Certificate of authenticity provided
With City of Light , Vanessa Yiile offers a nocturnal vision of the city as both an interior space and an urban landscape. The scene opens onto a calm river, a moving mirror of the lights that surround it. The bridges are illuminated with a warm red, while the banks vibrate with golden glimmers, tracing a lifeline in the heart of the darkness.
The photograph doesn't strive for documentary precision; it prioritizes emotion. The deep, almost velvety sky envelops the city in a contemplative silence. The luminous trails and reflections on the water create a sensation of gentle movement, like a slow breath. Paris—or any other metropolis—becomes here a universal symbol: that of a place where one feels at home, even when just passing through.
True to Yiile Gallery's approach, City of Light evokes inner peace, human warmth, and the fleeting beauty of the moment. The city is not oppressive; it reassures, it illuminates. It embodies this idea dear to Vanessa Yiile: the ability to find refuge, positive energy, and spiritual elevation in the very heart of the world's turmoil.
This artwork acts as a visual sanctuary. It invites us to slow down, to observe the light as a guide, and to feel the quiet joy of being present, here and now.
City of Light is a celebration of the urban moment, transformed into a space of peace, potential and reconnection to oneself.
