Gregory Orekhov — Shadow of Light (2026), Bonneville Salt Flats

A black square interrupts the white expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Gregory Orekhov uses light-absorbing fabric to create a surface that seems to withdraw from the landscape. Our reading: this minimal intervention unsettles depth and scale, as though an impossible image had suddenly appeared within the ground. Video and image : Nikita Subbotin /…

Gregory Orekhov — Shadow of Light, black square on the Bonneville Salt Flats

Gregory Orekhov — Shadow of Light (2026) · Nikita Subbotin / Studiolandon

A black square interrupts the white expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Gregory Orekhov uses light-absorbing fabric to create a surface that seems to withdraw from the landscape. Our reading: this minimal intervention unsettles depth and scale, as though an impossible image had suddenly appeared within the ground.

Video and image : Nikita Subbotin / Studiolandon, via Gregory Orekhov. Source and documentation