Pace Gallery in London will be honoring James Turrell with a solo exhibition of his latest work until 27 March 2020. In this film, academy-award winning director Jessica Yu takes her audience on a deep space meditation of the  Californian Light and Space artist's career-spanning work.

“Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful,situations for its felt presence are fragile," stated the artist in a previous interview. "I form it as much as the material allows… My desire is to setup a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.”

Drawing on his family’s religious background, Turrell’s art reveres light in the same way Quaker churches contemplate God – without pageantry or ostentation. The instrument of his art takes the form of projections, apertures, holograms, and sensory deprivation chambers which can be found in public and private locations across five continents.

Jessica Yu’s directorial treatment of James Turrell: Act of Seeing evokes the same geometric minimalism of Turrell’s work by making a slow and methodical reveal of his most immersive installation. Since 1977, Turrell has been transforming Roden Crater, an extinct volcano which haunts a desolate corner of the Arizona desert, into a naked eye telescope. Much like the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt which map onto celestial bodies, or Stonehenge in England which tracks the winter and summer solstices - when complete, Roden Crater is set to be an archaeoastronomical monument for the modern world.

As with all his work, this geological camera obscura uses no apparatus other than the human eye. Chambers and corridors built into the heart of the crater intensifies light from the sun, moon, stars and planets – presenting light in a way which challenges our perception of depth and reality.

Friends of Roden Crater is a membership that provides financial support for the construction and operation of Roden Crater. Find out more about joining the Support Light project.

James Turrell's Pace Gallery exhibition runs until 27 March 2020