Light Exercises for the Spirit
Krisztián Éder
24x30 cm
112 pages
Hard cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in September 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-70-4
Witty #120
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Light Exercises for the Spirit brings together photographs made between 2016 and 2025.
Rather than being conceived as a single project, the work developed gradually through a number of distinct sequences made over nearly a decade.
Moving between family photographs, portraits, landscapes and everyday observations, the book unfolds through association rather than chronology. Images echo across sequences, places, years and emotional states: domestic interiors sit alongside quiet landscapes, moments of intimacy dissolve into absence, and ordinary gestures acquire new significance through their proximity to one another.
The book grew out of a need to process the events that shaped these years, and the ways they altered my understanding of time, intimacy and home. Approached with quiet curiosity, the photographs became a way of remaining with these experiences without reducing them to a single meaning.
Neither memoir nor documentary, Light Exercises for the Spirit unfolds through the fragmented logic of memory, where sorrow and hope, closeness and distance, coexist rather than resolve.
