Lauren Baker | This Moment
Lauren Baker | This Moment | In Situ
Lauren Baker | This Moment | On Wall
Lauren Baker
This Moment, 2024
White neon mounted on black aluminium panel
57 x 112 x 10 cm
22 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 4 in
22 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 4 in
Edition of 3
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This Moment is a quiet command in light: white neon mounted on a black aluminium panel, its glowing words suspended against darkness. In a practice full of questions, invitations and...
This Moment is a quiet command in light: white neon mounted on a black aluminium panel, its glowing words suspended against darkness. In a practice full of questions, invitations and mantras, this piece does something plainer and more radical: it points at now. No qualifier, no condition, simply the present tense made luminous. The work continues the present-moment thread that runs through Baker's typographic neons, from the public work All Your Life You Were Waiting For This Moment, shown at Kensington and Chelsea Art Week, to Your Moment, which she has linked explicitly to Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now. Where those works build toward the moment, This Moment arrives: the black aluminium ground swallows the surrounding room, so the neon reads as words floating in darkness, the way a thought surfaces in stillness. The wide, low format, 112 cm across and 57 cm high, gives the phrase the calm authority of a horizon line. Handmade in neon glass and mounted on a black aluminium panel with 10 cm depth, the work casts a soft white glow into the space around it. Signed and numbered from an edition of 3. £4,500.