Auckland Festival of Photography presents exclusively a suite of works from artist residency in Hainan, China by Bronislaw Kōzka, Melbourne based artist as part of the Movement [Kori] theme.
Limen: Light and Weight is a body of work developed in 2026 during an artist residency at Le Méridien Shimei Bay, Hainan, China. The project sits at a threshold — between sea and forest, exposure and immersion, clarity and density. Along the coastline at Shimei Bay, the horizon opens outward: light is direct, forceful, expansive. Step inland and the world closes in. The air thickens, light fragments, and space becomes layered and intimate. These works move across that boundary. Rather than documenting the landscape, the images are constructed through an accumulative process — multiple exposures, digital translation, and AI-assisted reconstruction.
Each image is built from the experience of being there: the pressure of humidity, the instability of shifting light, the sensation of moving between environments. Developed with the support of Le Méridien Shimei Bay, the series reflects a sustained engagement with the surrounding environment — from the South China Sea to the tropical forest and mountain interior. The result is not a fixed view, but a felt one.
Presented as a sequence, the works move between three conditions: open sea, tropical density, and mountain interior. Together they describe a continuous transition — a passage through landscape where perception is constantly adjusting. This is not landscape as image. It is landscape as encounter. - Artist Statement
Presentation proudly supported by Auckland Council Events & Auckland Live.
