ARTSEEN - The Brooklyn Rail
Emil Lukas: Infinite Edge
By Farren Fei Yuan
Installation view: Emil Lukas: Infinite Edge, Sperone Westwater, New York, 2025. Courtesy Sperone Westwater.
“Emil Lukas’s fifth solo exhibition at Sperone Westwater presents the viewer with two floors of shape-shifting optical structures that unsettle the relation between seeing and knowing. Pacing around the works, perplexed by the dizzying sights before me, I was made acutely aware of the embodied nature of vision—the physiological orchestration of light, retina, eye muscles, and nerve signals, all subject to interference and failure. To regain stability I stood back from the display, and, satisfyingly, fragments cohered once again into atmospheric images that evoked cosmic forms and landscapes.”
