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