Llum BCN 26 festival hosts the installations ‘Underlight’ and ‘Spectris’ of master’s students

The new edition of Llum BCN, a leading European festival in the field of the light arts organised by the Barcelona City Council, will host the projects Underlight, by students of the Master in Design for Emergent Futures, and Spectris, by students of the Master in Ephemeral Architecture.

This festival gathers the contributions of creators from all areas of the visual arts, professionals as well as students, in over 30 installations. From February 6 to 8, Llum BCN will bring thousands of people out onto the streets to enjoy these installations.

Location: Castella, 4 (square)

Industrial heritage is often linked to visible structures such as factories or chimneys, but underground there is another hidden world: a network of pipes and conduits that keeps the city running. This installation takes its name from the old Iris power station located in this square and, like an optical iris, acts as a diaphragm that opens up a visual access to the underground. A small robot travels through the sewer system to reveal underground infrastructure and the memories it contains. A network of screens shows this journey underground and invites the public to explore what lies beneath their feet and rediscover the city from within.

Students: Iuliia Malkova, Manideep Mamidala, Maximilian Severin Becht, Neil Trouw, Andrea Santi, Auxence Daillen,David Granizo Calero, Deniz İpek Karataş, Elizabeth Frías Martínez, Flavio Grimaldi, Gökberk Buğra Aktaş, Ivane Gventsadze, Josefina Lo Prete, Lakshmi Narayanan Vadamalai Kannan, Magdalena Kurdzialek, Melike Şahinler, Mingxiang Zheng, Mohit Chopra, Nina Avdalyan, Valeria Carrión, Pelinsu Şahin, Ramon Prat Gibert, Rishi Srinivasan, Senem Kaya, Shubham Vinayak Benare, Yetkin Demir

Faculty: Mario Santamaría, Chiara Dall’Olio, Saul Baeza

Location: Jardins d’Elisava, c/Àvila, 171-173

In the Elisava Gardens, the Spectris project, featuring dichroic glass panels suspended between white lights, transforms the space into a kaleidoscope of changing colors. The installation explores how we perceive truth in a hyperconnected world, where information flows faster than we can process it. The lights respond in real time to global news: one side lights up when words such as “truth” and “fact-checking” appear, the other when terms such as “false” and “misinformation” appear. This changing play of light reflects the tensions between opposing narratives that shape our reality. A visual experience that reflects on how we consume information and how we construct our perception of the world.

Students: Sara Bokr, Rebecca Dilorio-DeDomeneghi, Camilla Di Martino, Yara Farah, María Isabel Galarza, Priyanka Grottin, Irem Gündoğdu, Nour Klaime, Thelma Riche, Ned Alfred Smith, Robin Tammer, Inés Bossen Yglesias, Berta Gómez Rojas, Johanna Mae Tobias Jucutan, Irene Lara Zurilla, Judith Xinyu Liu, Carla Lozano Martínez, Pol Urbano Garcia

Faculty: Lina Bautista, Alexandra Bedoya, Laura Cabrera, Citlali Hernández, Toni Montes, Roger Paez

Sponsor: Cricursa patrocinador