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The show title here quotes a passage from Gertrude Stein’s poem “Tender Buttons [A Plate].” The exhibition premise is simple: what if light itself was the main character in our story? Raking light, divine light, natural light, artificial light, even shadows all have their cameos in Kelsey Shwetz’s lantern room. What we find illuminated reveals traces of human presence, phantoms of activity (“The Light Fell on Her Face in a Gentle Network of Shadow”) as well as inanimate objects taking on a figurative form (“Spectre,” “Portrait of an Ending”). Reflections in windows and water allow the viewer …