Minne Kersten: Day for Night

Annet Gelink Gallery is pleased to present Day for Night, Minne Kersten’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, following her 2022 presentation in The Bakery. At the heart of the exhibition is the new film installation Where I’m Calling From (2025), shown here for the first time alongside new sculptures and paintings.

The title Day for Night refers to the cinematic technique used to simulate night during daytime shooting—a gesture of artifice that reflects Kersten’s interest in how perception is constructed, and how illusions can carry emotional truth. Working across video, sculpture, and painting, Kersten’s practice orbits around the residue of a narrative: what remains after an event, psychologically and physically.

Where I’m Calling From is set in a meticulously constructed attic set, presented as an independent installation at the CAPC Bordeaux and David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, in 2024. During filming, the attic was briefly inhabited by moths—nocturnal creatures whose erratic flight introduces an unstable, spectral presence. Moths, in mythology and folklore, often signal transformation, death, or obsession. Here, they function as both protagonists and metaphors, pointing to Kersten’s interest in how constructed binaries —light and dark, life and death— are far less stable than they appear.