Witching Hour, 2025

Installation, acrylic and pigments on paper, wood, photoprint, video projections. Various dimensions, container 6.00 m x 3.00 m.

Witching Hour refers to the nocturnal threshold when the unknown is most present — an hour long associated with superstition, fear and witchcraft. Rink explores this time as a space of possibility: an hour without fixed duration where time resists linear measurement and where painting and video merge with references to the elements and nature.

In this stage-like installation, painted black leaves and pleated sculptural paper forms cascade into a stack of blue, pigmented wooden panels. Along with video projections and photographic images, they conjure a different perception of time, creating a sense of an unfolding, ritualised moment. The video projection on the left was shot at White Sands in New Mexico,in 2014 during a residency period at the Santa Fe Art Institute. White Sands was the first testing ground for nuclear experiments, in its close proximation of Los Alomos. Overlooking the wide vastness, the figure is trapped in a loop. The video on the right is projected on a series of blue-painted panels and shows a double waterfall, where the water flows up in a perpetual loop, mimicking a sense of fire.

Colour, which is always central to Rink’s work, becomes a tool of reclamation here; the beginning of a personal, esoteric colour theory rooted in darkness, nature and uncertainty. Uncertainty serves as a fertile condition, providing a foundation for resetting, renewing, and regenerating — a soft reset, a moment of suspension, and an invitation to linger in the indeterminate.