In 2024, Margarita Demina took part in Lux Feminae’s New York edition, presenting a body of work that reimagines photography as a tactile, time-bound ritual. Her process — exposing images onto stone — meditates on the fragility of vision and the permanence of memory, aligning with Lux Feminae’s curatorial pursuit of artists who challenge conventional image-making. Rooted in metaphysics and poetics, Margarita’s practice resists mere representation; instead, it seeks to inscribe the ineffable — the passing of light, the trace of absence, the stillness between perception and understanding. In the context of New York’s ever-evolving visual culture, her work offered a quiet yet forceful intervention into the language of contemporary art.