The Sunlight in Between is a multimedia project interrogating sunlight in London and how it shapes everyday urban life. It asks how we experience and manipulate sunlight in the city’s public and private spaces.

At the heart of the project is a major durational performance involving seven performers reflecting sunlight with mirrors into the deep alcoves of Smithfield Meat Market car park as a reflection of bringing life, through natural light, to an underground space with a dark history. This is one of a series of filmed interventions which take the form of a programme of iterative experiments in manipulating and documenting sunlight, testing the materiality of urban sunlight in a spectrum of public and private spaces from the bedroom to the pavement. 

London is a city defined by its relationship to sunlight, with a long history of policies and architectural interventions that enhance or limit exposure. The Sunlight in Between encourages the urban citizen to rekindle their connection with sunlight in the city, to make time to reflect on this overlooked aspect of their daily life, and experiment with ways to become agents of illumination.