The lighting installation ‘Spectris’ wins the Llum BCN Young Talent Award 2026 in the Risk category

Spectris was conceived, built, and installed by a group of Elisava students from the Master in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces and the Bachelor in Design and Innovation, led by Toni Montes, Lina Bautista, Citlali Hernández, Alexandra Bedoya, Laura Cabrera, and Roger Paez.

The jury that awarded the prize was composed of:

Alba Corral (visual artist)
Birgit Lill-Schnabl (guest curator Llum Bcn 26)
Michela Mezzavilla (designer and architect)
Xevi Bayona (visual artist, director of the Lluèrnia festival, Olot)

Jardins d’Elisava, c/Àvila, 171-173
ELISAVA, School of Design and Engineering UVIC-UCC

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.

Credits:

ELISAVA, School of Design and Engineering UVIC-UCC
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 and Pol Urbano Garcia
Faculty: Lina Bautista, Alexandra Bedoya, Laura Cabrera, Citlali Hernández, Toni Montes and Roger Paez
Sponsor: CRICURSA