THE HAGUE.- Stroom Den Haag is presenting More Heat Than Light, artist Agustina Woodgate’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. More Heat Than Light invites visitors to immerse themselves in an installation focusing on the relationship between temperature and information. The exhibition is to integrate four projects into an installation that fills the entire exhibition space at Stroom. In 2022 Woodgate started researching quantum communication in the Hague region in collaboration with QuTech, a research institute of TU Delft, specially for this exhibition. This has been an extraordinary period, as last year the institute set a world record for the longest quantum connection. Using factors from QuTech’s scientific experiment – diamonds, lenses, time and temperature – More Heat Than Light translates the complex dynamics of quantum technology into a relatable, tangible exhibition setting for a wider audience.

Woodgate is known for her sculptural work that reveals the impact of abstract and invisible structures on our daily lives. The physical scale of a quantum connection remains unfathomable. It takes place on a subatomic scale, too minute to observe with the naked eye.

The four installations in the exhibition – Power-Line, Radiators, Alice & Bob and Hour Gas – are linked. The presence of visitors affect the temperature and the workings of the installations in the space. As the temperature rises, thermal machine printers generate an archive of this interaction. The result is a climate logbook influenced by temperature and time.

More Heat Than Light is part of Woodgate's Infrastructures series, a long-running set of projects within her practice that focuses on the poetics and politics of infrastructures and how they resonate in public and private spaces. Woodgate works with engineers, scientists and urban planners to produce unorthodox and context-dependent systems. Woodgate's Infrastructures present societal alternatives from a critical perspective.

Agustina Woodgate (b. 1981) lives and works in the Netherlands and Argentina. Her sculptural and conceptual practice encompasses spatial interventions, objects and installations. She explores how information technology conditions the social fabric – and thereby society – and determines access. She researches systems, the associated value theories and design logic operating in the urban environment. Woodgate has shown her work at the 12th MediaCity Biennial, Seoul; 2019 Whitney Biennial, New York; IX Berlin Biennial; IV Istanbul Design Biennial; Kulturpark, Berlin and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.