EXHIBITION LIGHTING · JEDDAH
Photographing
Distance
Light shaped around the exhibition.
Lighting design for Matilde Marín’s exhibition at the Red Sea Museum in Al-Balad, Jeddah.
- My role
- Lighting design
- Artist
- Matilde Marín
- Venue
- Red Sea Museum
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
THE APPROACH
From a lighting sketch
to the room itself.
The design responds to the exhibition’s photographs, LED displays and the museum’s existing architecture. The lighting layout began with a hand-drawn plan of positions and aiming directions around the columns.
On site, beam tests through glass and focusing in the gallery helped balance the exhibition light with the LED walls and ambient light. The following panels document that process, the space in use and the exhibition credits.
PROJECT IN DETAIL
The visual story.
Planning, on-site work, visitors and credits. Select any panel to view the original image.
A photograph is made of light.
Exhibition lighting conceived around the photographic work and the visitor’s view.
Raw stone. Bare concrete.
The entrance arcade and gallery before the exhibition was complete.
It starts on paper.
A hand-drawn layout showing fixture positions, aiming directions and the columns.
Tuned in the room.
Beam tests through glass and the balance between the LED walls and surrounding light.
Light for people in motion.
Visitors moving through the open gallery between columns and LED displays.
Same building. Different nights.
Views of the arcade, an evening talk and a candlelit music event.
Jeddah, after dark.
The Red Sea Museum in Al-Balad, Jeddah, shown at night.
Thank you, team.
A team photograph and acknowledgements to the people and institutions behind the exhibition.
Every name on it.
The exhibition credits wall at the Red Sea Museum.
Kareem Khaled Eid.
The displayed exhibition credit names Kareem Khaled Eid for Lighting Design.
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