"The world exists in its concreteness," says Anna Mitgutsch in the essay she wrote specifically for this book. "It is colorful and chaotic, full of life, never stagnant, full of light and shadow, full of change ... Only light is not concrete; it is not a thing in itself ... Light allows us to distinguish and measure; the line is a child of light and darkness." Nikolaus Korab explores this line in 18 impressively reduced, meticulously crafted photographic works. Open doors that hint at life behind the walls, bare anterooms, an empty chair, a broom - the photographer archetypizes everyday situations, creating abandoned stage spaces from light that hardly require any props; the quotes that Korab places before each work - from Claude Simon, Joseph Roth, Vilém Flusser, Anna Kim, and others - seem to echo into the void.