Gallery
Facultad de Educación y Deporte Inmaculada
Studio Chevalvert
RYTHMUS
In Rythmus, our hands, and by extension our bodies, become the means to connect both to our biological rhythms and this circular interactive sculpture. An installation that makes visible the heartbeat of two people who, facing each other, are connected to a circular network of interactive light totems. These lights take on their own life, unfolding and evolving according to the similarities and differences of a vital and intimate phenomenon: the heartbeat of two users.
This installation transforms this individual physiological phenomenon into a collective experience, creating a union between the two users, the organic structure, the public, and the surrounding space.
Museo de las Bellas Artes de Álava
dLux
IMAGO
The installation IMAGO refers to the designation of the internal and representative image of people in the unconscious of the other, being this impression the one that marks the way in which we socialize.
IMAGO invites the viewer to discover through the recreation on the facade of the building, not only that unknown interior of the works of art that make up the permanent collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava, but it also wants to show the stories, imagined by a new artist, behind each of them.
The idea is to generate, during 5-minute passes, a new progressive visual narrative of the pictorial work of the collection, inviting the visitor in turn to see things from another perspective, and thus generating new ways of interacting with their environment.
Paseo de Fray Francisco de Vitoria
David Alcorta
SUSURRO
This installation refers to the rustling of the trees, centenary horse chestnut trees, which constitute one of the most important alignments of the city landscape. It is an invitation to search for a moment of encounter with the plant world, which has been absorbed by the city, and of which the passerby is often unaware in his daily walk.
Through a geometric game of lasers that sweep the entire promenade, the installation wants to make known this other perspective of the city, that of the trees that, although once inserted by the hand of man in the layout of the city more than a century ago, reclaim their presence as if that space had always belonged to them.
There are the trees that whisper to us, emphasizing the importance of the
cohabitation between man and nature.
Paseo Carmelo Bernaola
Juan Fuentes
KINETIC PERSPECTIVE
Inspired by the Optical Art illusions of the 1960s, Kinetic Perspective takes a simple piece as its starting point: an ever-spinning circle moving outwards and its illusory effect. Through an abstract, immersive geometric shape, the installation aims to awaken emotions and experiences in which the limit between what is real and what isn’t, is blurred, keeping everything rests on the perspective of the onlooker.
A row of eighteen illusions, each composed of two circles spinning in sync, gives the impression of a vanishing point at the eye level of visitors. Invited to actively participate and observe, the audience must move around to uncover the patterns, glimmers and distortion, in which a hidden geometry will be revealed.
Kinetics was the winner of the contest to represent the Asociación Autores de Iluminación in the Luz Madrid Festival held during October 2021.
Palacio de Zulueta
Colectivo 3 Lab Lights
ANTS
This installation wants to make the viewer reflect on the need to find points of collaboration between human beings, to create a collective intelligence that makes possible an integrating vision and respect between people and the natural ecosystems they inhabit. Only through a joint effort of all societies and a social awareness, we will be able to ensure a future for the survival of human beings on Earth.
Located in the gardens of the Zulueta Palace, the ANTS installation refers to the importance of terrestrial ecosystems and generates a dialogue with the marine world of the UNDERWOLD installation, which is located in the opposite side of the garden. Both pieces express the fragile equilibrium between the different ecosystems and the beings that populate them.
Palacio de Zulueta
Aleksandra Stratimirovic
UNDERWOLD
UNDERWORLD is a spatial installation of luminous forms depicting an imaginary tiny undersea settlement. This art installation, inspire from the very specific marine environment of Smögen, Sweden, has significant engaging commitment with the local community in the preservation of the marine environment. It is made of abandoned fishing nets that have been resting on the bottom of the sea for decades, which get reused to form giant lanterns. UNDERWORLD depicts a dimension of the everyday life of a fictional civilisation, given few recognizable and familiar elements of the human life.
Originally composed soundscape by Leonel Kaplan, which combines sound of sea-life with urban life character, give deeper and life-sparkling dimension to the artwork, and connects a known world with the unknown imaginary world.
Quiosco de Música Parque de la Florida
Studio & Light
NEON´S BAND: “RENACER”
Formed by 18 neon sculptures circularly organized in dialogue with the music kiosk that contains it, the installation, invites the viewer to leave behind the difficult times and look for a new fresh look. It proposes us to look for that positive memory of social cohesion that was the first edition of the festival, to be reborn and free ourselves from the recent times, and that, simply through an image already present in our past, is presented with a new spirit.
The relationship between the light and the physical space determines the intention of this installation. Fulfilling the desire with a life through time, tearing from silence the light you have within yourself. We have to find the axis to turn again, we have to turn again, turn and turn and turn again. Leaving the darkness, searching the light. Come down…, walk towards the water and you will find the life.
Reawaken!
Parlamento Vasco
Cédric Le Borgne
LES VOYAGEURS
They appear and disappear in the sky, between dream and reality. They contemplate the city, they explore it, they caress it, they imagine it, as the inhabitants, or the passers-by, do in their imagination.
Their travels began in Toulouse at the end of the 1990s, when Cédric Le Borgne installed his first sculptures in the streets of his neighbourhood, in a “wild” way, using street lighting and car headlights. Since then, “Les Voyageurs” have travelled the world, from Geneva to Seoul, from London to Singapore, inviting in each case to take a new look at everyday reality, to soar, to dream.
By staging the public space, the artist wants above all to celebrate the poetry of the everyday. For him, the city is a playground, a place of encounter and exchange.
Plaza del Conde de Peñaflorida
Escuela de Artes y Oficios
Vitoria-Gasteiz
UN KILÓMETRO LED COLOR FUCSIA
After the months of quarantine, it is time to go out again, to relate to each other and to establish the normality we have been dreaming of for so long. With this idea, to get out of the isolation to which we have been subjected for so long, it is proposed conceptually the creation of a cascade of fuchsia light composed of LED strips that descends from the balcony of the facade of the school and floods the square. The school as a closed building, symbolizes the confinement we have suffered and the light, which spills and covers the square, conceptualizes the sparkle of each of the people to go outside.
On the other hand, the colour fuchsia symbolizes strength, leaving the past behind and in psychology it is associated with healing. This waterfall will be composed of 1000m symbolizing each of the students of the centre.
Plaza de la Provincia
MOMAP studio
PNEUMA
Pneuma. It is an ancient Greek word that initially means “breath, where to give body to the imperceptible”: to make visible the invisible of a movement of air, in its trajectories with infinite nuances, imaginary that vary from the softest and slowest, to the most vivid and transparent, from the most powerful to the most subtle”.
It is a journey of breath; the images leave their frame to become spaces of
air movements. An onirism of movement.
Plaza de la Virgen Blanca
Coaner Codina
EXPEDICIÓN NAUTILUS
The oceans and seas have been generating life since the beginning of time. They cover 70% of the planet’s surface and are essential for the survival of all species living on Earth. But the impact of human activity, overfishing, pollution and climate change are increasingly threatening their sustainability and biodiversity, generating irreversible environmental impacts.
In this installation and inspired by the immensity and beauty of the underwater waters in perpetual motion, we bring you closer to an imaginary and dreamlike world where a large body of water full of fantastic creatures, overflows with light and colour the space of the “Plaza de la Virgen Blanca” in Vitoria.
Plaza de los Fueros
LEDSCONTROL
ESTADOS ALTERADOS DE TEMPO
Time is a concept deeply ingrained in us from birth. Our lives are organized into structured sections of temporal structures that give us a beginning and an end. This installation explores the perception of time in a sensorial sense, confronting the collective and personal perception of time.
Playing through movement and shadows, the former is presented as a new unit of media while the latter, as its representation. The light personifies a public speaker who without voice merely communicates through time and rhythm, inviting the audience to be part of a sensorial and perceptual game. The tempo speeds up or slows down objectively, trying to mark its structure in the subjectivity of the spectator.
A work designed as an invitation to a journey that orders to slow down to have
time for contemplation.
Plaza del Matxete
Rodrigo Llavayol
¡TOMA TU LUGAR!
Through the projection of shadows of human figures, it aims to highlight gender inequality over time. Three contiguous scenarios will be installed. In the first one, the male shadows will be larger than the female ones. In the second, the female shadows increase. In the last stage, only the figure of a man and a woman will appear, with shadows of equal size, leaving free spaces for the spectators to take their place, and get involved with the play and message.
It is up to us to decide how the light will illuminate us and what image we will leave from here on. This obstructed light is showing us the dark areas, not of simple human figures, but of society.
Winner of the call for young artists.
Villa Suso
UMBRA Light Festival
¡QUEREMOS QUE BRILLES TU!
Theme of the 2021 edition, the installation, inspired by the values of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) AGENDA 2030, wants to make visible and encourage the viewer to orient himself towards a positive vision of relating to his social, environmental, cultural … etc. context. After the pandemic COVID-19, seeks to reflect on the impact of man on the environment and how to recover a sustainable future development.
The installation focuses on people as agents of positive change, and invites visitors to mobilize, through small actions, to take advantage of the opportunities presented at the individual level, and transform our environment always looking for the greater good of the community and the ecosystems we inhabit.
Nevera – Muralla Medieval del Siglo XI
Ezequiel Nobili
ICESKY
Icesky is a light art installation that seeks to redraw the past using visual techniques from the present. It reveals the union between heaven and earth, the co-dependency between one element and another, highlighting the importance of nature for the existence of human beings. The project tries to demonstrate, in a poetic and simple way, the bilateral relationship between heaven and earth, between the beyond and the now, the above and below.
It demonstrates through art that we are nothing without natural resources and in this way learn to value what we have as humans. It is intended to transport the viewer to the past, to our roots, so that when they return to the present they value and take care of what awaits us in the future.
Plaza Fray Zacarías Martínez
UMBRA Light Festival
OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE (ODS)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda “are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of people around the world”.
This installation aims to raise awareness of these goals and highlight their importance for a better future. Based on the call of the United Nations for social mobilization, UMBRA Light Festival, takes part in making these goals visible, and proposes a festival where all the actors involved have focused their work around the values and parameters set out in the SDGs.
Palacio Escoriaza-Esquivel
Emilien Guesnard
ORDER 200
200 nautical lamps are aligned at regular intervals in perfect symmetry on either side of a minimalist structure. This open structure gives the viewer a deep and fascinating insight into the heart of the installation. Musical notes are linked to each lamp, generating a strange score of light and sound based on a musical composition by Cédric Beron.
The perspective effect gives the installation a hypnotising depth erasing time, no matter where the spectator looks at it from. The junction of the lines and dots of light is disrupted by the mist creating chaos in this connected space making the spectator lose track of time. Order2OO evokes the duality between order and disorder, separate yet inherently linked.
Catedral de Santa María
Carlos Torrijos
MIRADAS
GLANCES (MIRADAS) is an immersive light installation that, accompanied by music, places the viewer in the centre of attention, trying to return through the reflection in the mirror, their way of looking.
The sweet expression, the balanced colour, the gaze that observes and is observed, with its intention gives back to you what you want to see in that gaze.
For a moment, let’s observe attentively and let ourselves be observed, enjoying the look that the GLANCES return to us.
Museo Artium
Suso 33
( ((Graffphonica)) )
Painting in movement, understood as gesture and trace of the body, is the essence of SUSO33’s work. An international graffiti artist, he has been experimenting with action painting, muralism, performance, installation and video art for three decades. Ephemeral environments, in the street or in nature, pay homage to the memory of spaces and their inhabitants. Light is the protagonist, either outdoors (valuing natural conditions) or on stage, using new technologies. Far from theoretical speculations, his work “crosses the body”. Critical of the dehumanization of society, his latest works delve into the spiritual path.
Pasacalles de luz
Cia Majareta
Recorrido itinerante
ACCUA: In the fascinating marine world, we will never be able to know all the existing species. Its immense depth is lost within our sight, since it is the largest habitat of the planet in which the most amazing beings are sheltered. Accua is a luminous and colourful procession that advances in its streets in a majestic way by daring puppeteers, endearing seahorses and waders that are closing this timeless marine mosaic.
SLIMY SLOW: It is a journey to a world where the small is big and the weak is strong. It is a manifesto of small and weak beings that coexist with us on planet earth, but now they are the ones who decide what they can and should not do. A comedy improvised by some very extroverted, competitive and presumptuous beings.
Jardines de la Catedral María Inmaculada
Javier Riera
Berdeko Konstelazioa
Four projections of light and geometry over the trees of the park behind the cathedral make up the trail by Berdeko Konstelazioa (`Constellation in green´). The relationship between the light, geometry and nature acquires in this work a meditative character. The coexistence of the public with the power of suggestion of the modified landscape to which it attends, aspires to expand its perception and build bridges towards new qualities and dimensions in the involved locations. Geometry is understood here as a natural language prior to the matter, where shapes are able to establish a type of subtle and revealing resonance, and bring closer the vision of the flows of subtle energies present in nature.
Quiosco de Música Parque de la Florida
Playmodes (ES)
ZOOTROP
Zootrop is a box of music and light. Inside it, a threesome of jazz turns with the light around it in a continuous journey without movement. An audiovisual show in which a light installation, which reacts to the music, accompanies the interpretation of the threesome of jazz, transforming the Bandstand of the Park of La Florida into an audiovisual instrument, a sculpture of dynamic and avant-garde light.
Plaza de los Fueros – Fachada Fundación Vital
Illusion on stage (ES)
Respira Vida
We feed nature with plastics it does not need, same as we feed our body with things we do not need. We fill our shopping bag with expandable things, we buy things we do not need. We must learn to take off the layers we have in excess, waste we accumulate inside ourselves to connect again with nature. To take care of our body and of nature. We are always worried about leaving a better world for our children. Yes, but let´s work to educate our children and educate in order to leave better people in this world. Let´s think about it and start connecting our children with the commitment that we have with nature.
Plaza de España
dLux & Oído (ES)
Eclipse
In the period of time an eclipse lasts, the architecture comes to life and we enter a reality of altered perceptions. During the four minutes the proposal lasts lighting and relationship concepts develop transforming the perception of the viewer of the facade. It is an abstract sensory journey that invites the viewer to enter into a world of light, sound and
color.
Pórtico de la Iglesia de San Miguel
Anna Rosa Rupp (DE)
Lightprint / Indefinite Nations
The colors and the forms are based on abstract impressions of xylography on paper, which in constant movement create variations of composition in the space: forms that “dance” and compose at each moment a new relation with the environment.
“The interaction between the architecture and the images projected, originates a new scenario of reflection, distortion and deviation. Working in my impressions is like a research process: I make something and I see what is born. And only when I perceive a resonance from what I see, I know what I was searching. I apply what I have and I look for its echoes.”
Plaza de la Provincia
Aitor Oñederra / Elisa Rueda (ES)
Neuk ere amets bat daukat / Yo también tengo un sueño
Departing from the poem “I also have a dream” from Elisa Rueda, the words come out as movement. Poetic metaphors which through the metamorphosis of the images address issues such as human rights, sexual freedom or gender equality. Repairing in the little actions of nature in order to quench the thirst of freedom of the individual.
Muralla Medieval del Siglo XI
Ezequiel Nobili (AR)
Wall Pattern Phenomena
Wall Pattern Phenomena is a site-specific project through which Vitoria´s medieval wall is intervened by a saturated canvas of color.
Through the geometrical pattern developed in the latticework itself, Ezequiel Nobili invites the viewer to submerge in the constant flow of the colors which conform the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The resulting visual phenomenon calls the viewer emotionally modifying its perception from the urban environment by transforming it in lighting terms and chromatically.
Plaza de los jardines de Fray Zacarías
Ezequiel Nobili (AR)
TriChroTone
TriChrotone is a chromesthesia installation based on the symbiotic relationship between the color, the light and the sound. Its visual appearance varies cyclically through a chromatic-sound sequence in which the colors shapes appear and transform themselves thanks to the application of an aditive-sustractive combination of the color.
The synthesis of its different elements questions the viewer, in which generates emotional and multisensory connections of synesthetic character.
Centro Cultural Montehermoso&Depósito de aguas
Studio&Light (ES)
Renacer & Buscando la vida
TriChrotone is a chromesthesia installation based on the symbiotic relationship between the color, the light and the sound. Its visual appearance varies cyclically through a chromatic sound sequence in which the colors shapes appear and transform themselves thanks to the application of an aditive-sustractive combination of the color.
The synthesis of its different elements questions the viewer, in which generates emotional and multisensory connections of synesthetic character.
Calle Las Escuelas. Mural #Kontrastafrika
Emilio Valenzuela/Jordi Bonet (ES)
Kaleidoscopio
The relationship between the light and the physical space determines the intention of this immersive experience installation.
Fulfilling the desire with a life through time, tearing from silence the light you have within yourself. We have to find the axis to turn again, we have to turn again, turn and turn and turn again.
Leaving the darkness, searching the light. Come down…, walk towards the water and you will find the life.
Reawaken!
Calle Santa María. Mural El Triunfo de Vitoria
Emilio Valenzuela /Jordi Bonet (ES)
Alea Jacta Est
The Trickster and Vitoria have an end game. The Trickster will attempt to use all his tricks available to win the game. The maid intervenes helping Vitoria. Through the animation of layers a combat of cards develops with spells and special attacks.
Palacio Escorlaza-Esquivel
Studio Chevalvert & Mirage Festival (FR)
Stratum
Ephemeral and luminous geology of a movement in the space. Stratum is an interactive installation that enables to influence a “territory of light” through a gesture. The course of the hand over an interface is materialized in the space through layers of light. This reaction releases a visual reminiscence of the gesture, visible and tangible, such as an ephemeral geology of the movement, which builds several universes (cave, ground, rain, ray and stratosphere) where the viewer itself emerges.
Plaza de Santa María
Philippe Morvan (FR)
Dot
The basis of the installation is a luminous tool produced with recycled material, backlighted by 40 W incandescent bulbs. The entire device is programmable, being able to play with the intensity, variations and speed of each luminous unit, same as strengthening certain movements or translating emotions. Thus, the installation is at the same time minimalist in the form, and exuberant in the effects, as well as very ornamental both at day and at night..
Cripta de la Catedral de Santa María
Juan Gómez-Cornejo (ES)
Las monedas de Caronte
Visiting the crypt of the old Cathedral of Santa María, viewers are impressed by the space and particularly the history of the corpse with the coin in the mouth, payment to Charon, who guided with his boat the souls of the deceased along the Hades, the underworld. Here is the sea of coins, witnesses of the time and of the human condition.
Departing from that sea and assisted by the light and music. a climate is generated which during some minutes enables to see the Crypt from other perspective.
Calle Chiquita. Mural Al hilo del tiempo
Joan Rodón (ES)
Al hilo del tiempo
What would the walls tell us if they were able to talk…What is left from what we were, when everybody has forgotten? The relationship between the tissue with the man, stitched, hand knitted, the human relationships with the textile thing.
Memories which arise fleetingly, chained through the tissues. The fight of the permanence of the memory over the length of time. The importance of remembering where we come from.
Plaza del Marqués de la Alameda. Talka Galería
Néstor Basterretxea (ES)
Argi Kutxax / Cajas de luz
“The Boxes of Light are based on the television pixels which cause that the image decompose and is distorted. I profit from it to take pictures which will be useful for me to make these assemblies which I structure afterwards within a geometric order” (Néstor Basterretxea)
Néstor Basterretxea was a creator who opened the way of a new art and who constituted a first generation of Basque avant-gardes in the post-war era. His interest for other expressive forms made him an artist present in numerous artistic fronts being one of them the experimental photography.
Recorrido itinerante
CiaMajareta (ES)
Pasacalles de luz
PEGASUS: Let yourself be conquered by the emotion.The god Zeus arrives to the streets of our city with his squadron of Pegasus to perform a parade which without a doubt will conquer you.
BABIES GIANTS: Three giant babies are walking free! Three individuals have escaped from home and go playing mischief wherever they go. Prepare to dance because if you cross their way, they will not let you remain indifferent.
TRANSFORMERS: The other dimension. The mythical Transformers are brought to life on the street. Undoubtedly a performance that will leave all viewers open mouthed.
Jardines de la Catedral María Inmaculada
Javier Riera
Berdeko Konstelazioa
Four projections of light and geometry over the trees of the park behind the cathedral make up the trail by Berdeko Konstelazioa (`Constellation in green´). The relationship between the light, geometry and nature acquires in this work a meditative character. The coexistence of the public with the power of suggestion of the modified landscape to which it attends, aspires to expand its perception and build bridges towards new qualities and dimensions in the involved locations. Geometry is understood here as a natural language prior to the matter, where shapes are able to establish a type of subtle and revealing resonance, and bring closer the vision of the flows of subtle energies present in nature.
Quiosco de Música Parque de la Florida
Playmodes (ES)
ZOOTROP
Zootrop is a box of music and light. Inside it, a threesome of jazz turns with the light around it in a continuous journey without movement. An audiovisual show in which a light installation, which reacts to the music, accompanies the interpretation of the threesome of jazz, transforming the Bandstand of the Park of La Florida into an audiovisual instrument, a sculpture of dynamic and avant-garde light.
Plaza de los Fueros – Fachada Fundación Vital
Illusion on stage (ES)
Respira Vida
We feed nature with plastics it does not need, same as we feed our body with things we do not need. We fill our shopping bag with expandable things, we buy things we do not need. We must learn to take off the layers we have in excess, waste we accumulate inside ourselves to connect again with nature. To take care of our body and of nature. We are always worried about leaving a better world for our children. Yes, but let´s work to educate our children and educate in order to leave better people in this world. Let´s think about it and start connecting our children with the commitment that we have with nature.
Plaza de España
dLux & Oído (ES)
Eclipse
In the period of time an eclipse lasts, the architecture comes to life and we enter a reality of altered perceptions. During the four minutes the proposal lasts lighting and relationship concepts develop transforming the perception of the viewer of the facade. It is an abstract sensory journey that invites the viewer to enter into a world of light, sound and
color.
Pórtico de la Iglesia de San Miguel
Anna Rosa Rupp (DE)
Lightprint / Indefinite Nations
The colors and the forms are based on abstract impressions of xylography on paper, which in constant movement create variations of composition in the space: forms that “dance” and compose at each moment a new relation with the environment.
“The interaction between the architecture and the images projected, originates a new scenario of reflection, distortion and deviation. Working in my impressions is like a research process: I make something and I see what is born. And only when I perceive a resonance from what I see, I know what I was searching. I apply what I have and I look for its echoes.”
Plaza de la Provincia
Aitor Oñederra / Elisa Rueda (ES)
Neuk ere amets bat daukat / Yo también tengo un sueño
Departing from the poem “I also have a dream” from Elisa Rueda, the words come out as movement. Poetic metaphors which through the metamorphosis of the images address issues such as human rights, sexual freedom or gender equality. Repairing in the little actions of nature in order to quench the thirst of freedom of the individual.
Muralla Medieval del Siglo XI
Ezequiel Nobili (AR)
Wall Pattern Phenomena
Wall Pattern Phenomena is a site-specific project through which Vitoria´s medieval wall is intervened by a saturated canvas of color.
Through the geometrical pattern developed in the latticework itself, Ezequiel Nobili invites the viewer to submerge in the constant flow of the colors which conform the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The resulting visual phenomenon calls the viewer emotionally modifying its perception from the urban environment by transforming it in lighting terms and chromatically.
Plaza de los jardines de Fray Zacarías
Ezequiel Nobili (AR)
TriChroTone
TriChrotone is a chromesthesia installation based on the symbiotic relationship between the color, the light and the sound. Its visual appearance varies cyclically through a chromatic-sound sequence in which the colors shapes appear and transform themselves thanks to the application of an aditive-sustractive combination of the color.
The synthesis of its different elements questions the viewer, in which generates emotional and multisensory connections of synesthetic character.
Centro Cultural Montehermoso&Depósito de aguas
Studio&Light (ES)
Renacer & Buscando la vida
TriChrotone is a chromesthesia installation based on the symbiotic relationship between the color, the light and the sound. Its visual appearance varies cyclically through a chromatic sound sequence in which the colors shapes appear and transform themselves thanks to the application of an aditive-sustractive combination of the color.
The synthesis of its different elements questions the viewer, in which generates emotional and multisensory connections of synesthetic character.
Calle Las Escuelas. Mural #Kontrastafrika
Emilio Valenzuela/Jordi Bonet (ES)
Kaleidoscopio
The relationship between the light and the physical space determines the intention of this immersive experience installation.
Fulfilling the desire with a life through time, tearing from silence the light you have within yourself. We have to find the axis to turn again, we have to turn again, turn and turn and turn again.
Leaving the darkness, searching the light. Come down…, walk towards the water and you will find the life.
Reawaken!
Calle Santa María. Mural El Triunfo de Vitoria
Emilio Valenzuela /Jordi Bonet (ES)
Alea Jacta Est
The Trickster and Vitoria have an end game. The Trickster will attempt to use all his tricks available to win the game. The maid intervenes helping Vitoria. Through the animation of layers a combat of cards develops with spells and special attacks.
Palacio Escorlaza-Esquivel
Studio Chevalvert & Mirage Festival (FR)
Stratum
Ephemeral and luminous geology of a movement in the space. Stratum is an interactive installation that enables to influence a “territory of light” through a gesture. The course of the hand over an interface is materialized in the space through layers of light. This reaction releases a visual reminiscence of the gesture, visible and tangible, such as an ephemeral geology of the movement, which builds several universes (cave, ground, rain, ray and stratosphere) where the viewer itself emerges.
Plaza de Santa María
Philippe Morvan (FR)
Dot
The basis of the installation is a luminous tool produced with recycled material, backlighted by 40 W incandescent bulbs. The entire device is programmable, being able to play with the intensity, variations and speed of each luminous unit, same as strengthening certain movements or translating emotions. Thus, the installation is at the same time minimalist in the form, and exuberant in the effects, as well as very ornamental both at day and at night..
Cripta de la Catedral de Santa María
Juan Gómez-Cornejo (ES)
Las monedas de Caronte
Visiting the crypt of the old Cathedral of Santa María, viewers are impressed by the space and particularly the history of the corpse with the coin in the mouth, payment to Charon, who guided with his boat the souls of the deceased along the Hades, the underworld. Here is the sea of coins, witnesses of the time and of the human condition.
Departing from that sea and assisted by the light and music. a climate is generated which during some minutes enables to see the Crypt from other perspective.
Calle Chiquita. Mural Al hilo del tiempo
Joan Rodón (ES)
Al hilo del tiempo
What would the walls tell us if they were able to talk…What is left from what we were, when everybody has forgotten? The relationship between the tissue with the man, stitched, hand knitted, the human relationships with the textile thing.
Memories which arise fleetingly, chained through the tissues. The fight of the permanence of the memory over the length of time. The importance of remembering where we come from.
Plaza del Marqués de la Alameda. Talka Galería
Néstor Basterretxea (ES)
Argi Kutxax / Cajas de luz
“The Boxes of Light are based on the television pixels which cause that the image decompose and is distorted. I profit from it to take pictures which will be useful for me to make these assemblies which I structure afterwards within a geometric order” (Néstor Basterretxea)
Néstor Basterretxea was a creator who opened the way of a new art and who constituted a first generation of Basque avant-gardes in the post-war era. His interest for other expressive forms made him an artist present in numerous artistic fronts being one of them the experimental photography.
Recorrido itinerante
CiaMajareta (ES)
Pasacalles de luz
PEGASUS: Let yourself be conquered by the emotion.The god Zeus arrives to the streets of our city with his squadron of Pegasus to perform a parade which without a doubt will conquer you.
BABIES GIANTS: Three giant babies are walking free! Three individuals have escaped from home and go playing mischief wherever they go. Prepare to dance because if you cross their way, they will not let you remain indifferent.
TRANSFORMERS: The other dimension. The mythical Transformers are brought to life on the street. Undoubtedly a performance that will leave all viewers open mouthed.
Facultad de Educación y Deporte Inmaculada
Studio Chevalvert
RYTHMUS
In Rythmus, our hands, and by extension our bodies, become the means to connect both to our biological rhythms and this circular interactive sculpture. An installation that makes visible the heartbeat of two people who, facing each other, are connected to a circular network of interactive light totems. These lights take on their own life, unfolding and evolving according to the similarities and differences of a vital and intimate phenomenon: the heartbeat of two users.
This installation transforms this individual physiological phenomenon into a collective experience, creating a union between the two users, the organic structure, the public, and the surrounding space.
Museo de las Bellas Artes de Álava
dLux
IMAGO
The installation IMAGO refers to the designation of the internal and representative image of people in the unconscious of the other, being this impression the one that marks the way in which we socialize.
IMAGO invites the viewer to discover through the recreation on the facade of the building, not only that unknown interior of the works of art that make up the permanent collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava, but it also wants to show the stories, imagined by a new artist, behind each of them.
The idea is to generate, during 5-minute passes, a new progressive visual narrative of the pictorial work of the collection, inviting the visitor in turn to see things from another perspective, and thus generating new ways of interacting with their environment.
Paseo de Fray Francisco de Vitoria
David Alcorta
SUSURRO
This installation refers to the rustling of the trees, centenary horse chestnut trees, which constitute one of the most important alignments of the city landscape. It is an invitation to search for a moment of encounter with the plant world, which has been absorbed by the city, and of which the passerby is often unaware in his daily walk.
Through a geometric game of lasers that sweep the entire promenade, the installation wants to make known this other perspective of the city, that of the trees that, although once inserted by the hand of man in the layout of the city more than a century ago, reclaim their presence as if that space had always belonged to them.
There are the trees that whisper to us, emphasizing the importance of the
cohabitation between man and nature.
Paseo Carmelo Bernaola
Juan Fuentes
KINETIC PERSPECTIVE
Inspired by the Optical Art illusions of the 1960s, Kinetic Perspective takes a simple piece as its starting point: an ever-spinning circle moving outwards and its illusory effect. Through an abstract, immersive geometric shape, the installation aims to awaken emotions and experiences in which the limit between what is real and what isn’t, is blurred, keeping everything rests on the perspective of the onlooker.
A row of eighteen illusions, each composed of two circles spinning in sync, gives the impression of a vanishing point at the eye level of visitors. Invited to actively participate and observe, the audience must move around to uncover the patterns, glimmers and distortion, in which a hidden geometry will be revealed.
Kinetics was the winner of the contest to represent the Asociación Autores de Iluminación in the Luz Madrid Festival held during October 2021.
Palacio de Zulueta
Colectivo 3 Lab Lights
ANTS
This installation wants to make the viewer reflect on the need to find points of collaboration between human beings, to create a collective intelligence that makes possible an integrating vision and respect between people and the natural ecosystems they inhabit. Only through a joint effort of all societies and a social awareness, we will be able to ensure a future for the survival of human beings on Earth.
Located in the gardens of the Zulueta Palace, the ANTS installation refers to the importance of terrestrial ecosystems and generates a dialogue with the marine world of the UNDERWOLD installation, which is located in the opposite side of the garden. Both pieces express the fragile equilibrium between the different ecosystems and the beings that populate them.
Palacio de Zulueta
Aleksandra Stratimirovic
UNDERWOLD
UNDERWORLD is a spatial installation of luminous forms depicting an imaginary tiny undersea settlement. This art installation, inspire from the very specific marine environment of Smögen, Sweden, has significant engaging commitment with the local community in the preservation of the marine environment. It is made of abandoned fishing nets that have been resting on the bottom of the sea for decades, which get reused to form giant lanterns. UNDERWORLD depicts a dimension of the everyday life of a fictional civilisation, given few recognizable and familiar elements of the human life.
Originally composed soundscape by Leonel Kaplan, which combines sound of sea-life with urban life character, give deeper and life-sparkling dimension to the artwork, and connects a known world with the unknown imaginary world.
Quiosco de Música Parque de la Florida
Studio & Light
NEON´S BAND: “RENACER”
Formed by 18 neon sculptures circularly organized in dialogue with the music kiosk that contains it, the installation, invites the viewer to leave behind the difficult times and look for a new fresh look. It proposes us to look for that positive memory of social cohesion that was the first edition of the festival, to be reborn and free ourselves from the recent times, and that, simply through an image already present in our past, is presented with a new spirit.
The relationship between the light and the physical space determines the intention of this installation. Fulfilling the desire with a life through time, tearing from silence the light you have within yourself. We have to find the axis to turn again, we have to turn again, turn and turn and turn again. Leaving the darkness, searching the light. Come down…, walk towards the water and you will find the life.
Reawaken!
Parlamento Vasco
Cédric Le Borgne
LES VOYAGEURS
They appear and disappear in the sky, between dream and reality. They contemplate the city, they explore it, they caress it, they imagine it, as the inhabitants, or the passers-by, do in their imagination.
Their travels began in Toulouse at the end of the 1990s, when Cédric Le Borgne installed his first sculptures in the streets of his neighbourhood, in a “wild” way, using street lighting and car headlights. Since then, “Les Voyageurs” have travelled the world, from Geneva to Seoul, from London to Singapore, inviting in each case to take a new look at everyday reality, to soar, to dream.
By staging the public space, the artist wants above all to celebrate the poetry of the everyday. For him, the city is a playground, a place of encounter and exchange.
Plaza del Conde de Peñaflorida
Escuela de Artes y Oficios
Vitoria-Gasteiz
UN KILÓMETRO LED COLOR FUCSIA
After the months of quarantine, it is time to go out again, to relate to each other and to establish the normality we have been dreaming of for so long. With this idea, to get out of the isolation to which we have been subjected for so long, it is proposed conceptually the creation of a cascade of fuchsia light composed of LED strips that descends from the balcony of the facade of the school and floods the square. The school as a closed building, symbolizes the confinement we have suffered and the light, which spills and covers the square, conceptualizes the sparkle of each of the people to go outside.
On the other hand, the colour fuchsia symbolizes strength, leaving the past behind and in psychology it is associated with healing. This waterfall will be composed of 1000m symbolizing each of the students of the centre.
Plaza de la Provincia
MOMAP studio
PNEUMA
Pneuma. It is an ancient Greek word that initially means “breath, where to give body to the imperceptible”: to make visible the invisible of a movement of air, in its trajectories with infinite nuances, imaginary that vary from the softest and slowest, to the most vivid and transparent, from the most powerful to the most subtle”.
It is a journey of breath; the images leave their frame to become spaces of
air movements. An onirism of movement.
Plaza de la Virgen Blanca
Coaner Codina
EXPEDICIÓN NAUTILUS
The oceans and seas have been generating life since the beginning of time. They cover 70% of the planet’s surface and are essential for the survival of all species living on Earth. But the impact of human activity, overfishing, pollution and climate change are increasingly threatening their sustainability and biodiversity, generating irreversible environmental impacts.
In this installation and inspired by the immensity and beauty of the underwater waters in perpetual motion, we bring you closer to an imaginary and dreamlike world where a large body of water full of fantastic creatures, overflows with light and colour the space of the “Plaza de la Virgen Blanca” in Vitoria.
Plaza de los Fueros
LEDSCONTROL
ESTADOS ALTERADOS DE TEMPO
Time is a concept deeply ingrained in us from birth. Our lives are organized into structured sections of temporal structures that give us a beginning and an end. This installation explores the perception of time in a sensorial sense, confronting the collective and personal perception of time.
Playing through movement and shadows, the former is presented as a new unit of media while the latter, as its representation. The light personifies a public speaker who without voice merely communicates through time and rhythm, inviting the audience to be part of a sensorial and perceptual game. The tempo speeds up or slows down objectively, trying to mark its structure in the subjectivity of the spectator.
A work designed as an invitation to a journey that orders to slow down to have
time for contemplation.
Plaza del Matxete
Rodrigo Llavayol
¡TOMA TU LUGAR!
Through the projection of shadows of human figures, it aims to highlight gender inequality over time. Three contiguous scenarios will be installed. In the first one, the male shadows will be larger than the female ones. In the second, the female shadows increase. In the last stage, only the figure of a man and a woman will appear, with shadows of equal size, leaving free spaces for the spectators to take their place, and get involved with the play and message.
It is up to us to decide how the light will illuminate us and what image we will leave from here on. This obstructed light is showing us the dark areas, not of simple human figures, but of society.
Winner of the call for young artists.
Villa Suso
UMBRA Light Festival
¡QUEREMOS QUE BRILLES TU!
Theme of the 2021 edition, the installation, inspired by the values of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) AGENDA 2030, wants to make visible and encourage the viewer to orient himself towards a positive vision of relating to his social, environmental, cultural … etc. context. After the pandemic COVID-19, seeks to reflect on the impact of man on the environment and how to recover a sustainable future development.
The installation focuses on people as agents of positive change, and invites visitors to mobilize, through small actions, to take advantage of the opportunities presented at the individual level, and transform our environment always looking for the greater good of the community and the ecosystems we inhabit.
Nevera – Muralla Medieval del Siglo XI
Ezequiel Nobili
ICESKY
Icesky is a light art installation that seeks to redraw the past using visual techniques from the present. It reveals the union between heaven and earth, the co-dependency between one element and another, highlighting the importance of nature for the existence of human beings. The project tries to demonstrate, in a poetic and simple way, the bilateral relationship between heaven and earth, between the beyond and the now, the above and below.
It demonstrates through art that we are nothing without natural resources and in this way learn to value what we have as humans. It is intended to transport the viewer to the past, to our roots, so that when they return to the present they value and take care of what awaits us in the future.
Plaza Fray Zacarías Martínez
UMBRA Light Festival
OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE (ODS)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda “are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of people around the world”.
This installation aims to raise awareness of these goals and highlight their importance for a better future. Based on the call of the United Nations for social mobilization, UMBRA Light Festival, takes part in making these goals visible, and proposes a festival where all the actors involved have focused their work around the values and parameters set out in the SDGs.
Palacio Escoriaza-Esquivel
Emilien Guesnard
ORDER 200
200 nautical lamps are aligned at regular intervals in perfect symmetry on either side of a minimalist structure. This open structure gives the viewer a deep and fascinating insight into the heart of the installation. Musical notes are linked to each lamp, generating a strange score of light and sound based on a musical composition by Cédric Beron.
The perspective effect gives the installation a hypnotising depth erasing time, no matter where the spectator looks at it from. The junction of the lines and dots of light is disrupted by the mist creating chaos in this connected space making the spectator lose track of time. Order2OO evokes the duality between order and disorder, separate yet inherently linked.
Catedral de Santa María
Carlos Torrijos
MIRADAS
GLANCES (MIRADAS) is an immersive light installation that, accompanied by music, places the viewer in the centre of attention, trying to return through the reflection in the mirror, their way of looking.
The sweet expression, the balanced colour, the gaze that observes and is observed, with its intention gives back to you what you want to see in that gaze.
For a moment, let’s observe attentively and let ourselves be observed, enjoying the look that the GLANCES return to us.
Museo Artium
Suso 33
( ((Graffphonica)) )
Painting in movement, understood as gesture and trace of the body, is the essence of SUSO33’s work. An international graffiti artist, he has been experimenting with action painting, muralism, performance, installation and video art for three decades. Ephemeral environments, in the street or in nature, pay homage to the memory of spaces and their inhabitants. Light is the protagonist, either outdoors (valuing natural conditions) or on stage, using new technologies. Far from theoretical speculations, his work “crosses the body”. Critical of the dehumanization of society, his latest works delve into the spiritual path.
Pasacalles de luz
Cia Majareta
Recorrido itinerante
ACCUA: In the fascinating marine world, we will never be able to know all the existing species. Its immense depth is lost within our sight, since it is the largest habitat of the planet in which the most amazing beings are sheltered. Accua is a luminous and colourful procession that advances in its streets in a majestic way by daring puppeteers, endearing seahorses and waders that are closing this timeless marine mosaic.
SLIMY SLOW: It is a journey to a world where the small is big and the weak is strong. It is a manifesto of small and weak beings that coexist with us on planet earth, but now they are the ones who decide what they can and should not do. A comedy improvised by some very extroverted, competitive and presumptuous beings.
