The Exhibition of Derek Jarman: Luminous Darkness is a publication accompanying presentations of Derek Jarman’s visual and film-based work, bringing together documentation, stills, writings, and works that reflect his multidisciplinary practice as a filmmaker, painter, gardener, and diarist.

The book frames Jarman’s work through the concept of “luminous darkness,” a condition in which obscurity and illumination coexist rather than oppose each other. Across his practice, darkness is not treated as absence but as a charged space where memory, politics, desire, and time accumulate.