Monika Nyström’s work concerns vision and the power of light. Her recent show “Skymning” (Twilight) took place during the darkest time of the northern year, but no artificial lighting was used in the galleries. “Twilight” used a range of elements—photographs, a laser installation, a rotating stained-glass window, and place-names painted on the walls—to imagine and interpret abstract concepts like time, space, and light. But it also addressed specific places and the ideological constructions associated with them.

The exhibition mutated over the course of the day, along with the changes in the dim