Praxis is pleased to present Winter Solstice: Seeds of Nothingness, an exhibition by photographer, musician and composer Edo Costantini (b. Buenos Aires, 1976) in collaboration with artist Delfina Braun (b. 1986 Buenos Aires) and architect Delfina Muniz Barreto (b. 1987, Buenos Aires).
The show will be open from Thursday, Jan 15 to Saturday, May 2nd, 2026.
The opening reception will be on Thursday, Jan 15, from 6 to 8 pm.
The winter solstice is the longest night of the year, when darkness reaches its fullest extent and time
appears to slow, poised before its gradual return toward light. This period is often described as
stillness or absence. Yet what takes place within sustained darkness?
Winter Solstice: Seeds of Nothingness takes place in a moment of suspension. The exhibition draws
from Edo Costantini’s ongoing practice in photography, film, and sound, and includes a series of
bronze sculptures created in collaboration with artist Delfina Braun and architect Delfina Muniz
Barreto. Across these works, the project attends to what persists beneath visibility, slow
transformations, latent states, and forms of life that remain active while appearing still.
Since settling in Katonah, Costantini has spent more than a decade tracing paths through the
surrounding woods, establishing a daily practice grounded in close observation. Walking without
urgency or a clear destination, he comes to know the landscape by the insistence of return. The
series of photographs presented here arises from this long-term engagement, registering subtle
changes and details that emerge only through continued proximity.
Seeds appear throughout the exhibition, positioned close to the ground. Cast in bronze from seeds
gathered across upstate New York, the sculptures preserve a scale close to the original, along with
their irregularities and texture. The choice of bronze does not alter their form; it alters their relationship
to time. What was once seasonal becomes lasting, almost indefinite. Their durability allows them to
remain, to endure, to carry the weight of what they have been without accelerating toward what they
might become.
First shown in Brazil in 2025 at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (MAC), the bronze
sculptures of mushrooms and suspended mycelial structures—realized through a shared process by
the group of three artists—are presented throughout the exhibition. These elements refer to forms of
life that persist underground during the winter months, covered by soil and protected by darkness.
Fungi, roots, and subterranean networks enter phases of latency and conservation, maintaining
circulation, exchange, and memory within the earth. Toward this material constellation, these
elements are joined by a series of drawings by Braun, rendered in bronze in collaboration with Muniz
Barreto.
The exhibition space is further shaped by Costantini’s music compositions and moving-image works.
Field recordings and filmed sequences drawn from the same sites as the photographs establish
continuity across media, reinforcing a sense of duration and spatial coherence. Sound and image
function as extensions of the same observational process, sustaining the presence of the landscape
within the exhibition.
In Winter Solstice: Seeds of Nothingness, photography, sculpture, sound, and video focus on a
moment of seasonal transformation. As light recedes, growth slows, energy is conserved, and life
reorganizes itself beneath the surface. The winter solstice extends darkness to allow these processes
of the earth to persist, reframing stillness as an active condition rather than an absence. What takes
shape is not a promise, but a present, in which waiting becomes a mode of attention and change
continues, quietly, almost unnoticed.
—Micaela Vindman
