Light of Longing

This lamp was created during Homo Faber Fellowship 2025/26 by lamp maker Helena Imaginário based in Portugal, and Chinese fellow Ou Sansan. It combines a milled birch wood structure with hand woven linen and dried sheep intestines. Emerging from a dialogue between Portuguese and Mongolian perspectives on the emotional hunger of longing, the work evokes the physical sensation of yearning felt in the abdomen. When light passes through the thin layer of intestinal membrane, a symbolic material, it seems to expose the fragility of existence.

CRAFTED BY

Helena Imaginário

Lamp maker | Évora, Portugal

Ou Sansan

Textile sculptor | Kanazawa, Japan