The exhibition title The Most Sunny Hour of Your Night is inspired by a text by poet and novelist, Rainer Maria Rilke, written nearly one hundred years ago. In fact, the title is a direct nod to a line in the passage that speaks about the essential matter of not looking for outside validation. In “Letters to a Young Poet”, Rilke advises us to take an introspective journey when working creatively.

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He stresses the necessity of not taking notice of one's surroundings during the process but instead taking a moment of silence:

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There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you to write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write?

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Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, "I must," then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge.

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     – From Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet".

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Rilke's words touch on something essential: the necessity of facing oneself, first and foremost as an individual. He urges one to take the time to be alone with the material during a creative process for it is after we free ourselves from the appetite for validation from others that we then create something authentic, and something new in the truest sense of the word.