Zaragoza Luce: a route through light and contemporary art
February 21-23, 2025
The edition of Festival Luce in Zaragoza ensures a visit around the city like no other, turning some of its monuments and public spaces into settings for light and technological art. Throughout this route, you will be able to explore eight shows that light up and bring the city to life. Each work is presented as a dialogue between light, art and the environment, encouraging visitors to reflect on different subjects.
The spots
Roman Theatre
Fiat Lux by Antoni Arola
‘Let there be light’ in Latin. This is the name given to Arola’s project, which will cover the Roman Theatre of Zaragoza with a halo of light. By means of lasers, smoke and a series of interactive elements, observers are surrounded by a volumetric and changeable space that takes them to a parallel universe through light.
Facade of the Association of Architects building
Pii, expansión arquitectónica by Néstor Lizalde
Interactive lighting that underlines the importance of architecture in Zaragoza. It brings together contemporary art and historical heritage, transforming the facade of the Association of Architects of Aragon building with lights that respond to the audience.
San Felipe Square
El Núcleo by Gustavo Omedes
‘El Núcleo’ is a cube-shaped structure, a container of light, with which Gustavo Omedes leads audiences to feel the interaction between plastic shapes and light in a dialogue of modernism and memory.
Justicia Square
Trayectos de luz del alba by Javier Riera
Riera projects geometrical light shapes onto the Santa Isabel Church, redefining the way in which light art and historical architecture are understood.
Hispanidad Fountain
Solardust by Quiet Ensemble
The Italians Fabio Di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli turn the fountain into a celestial landscape by projecting solar particles that float in the air, encouraging visitors to interact with light and music.
Pilar Square
Sign by Vendel & de Wolf
The Dutch artists connect hundreds of tubes imitating bamboo with LED lights that can be interpreted in different ways: from a distance, a bonfire in motion, and close up, a hypnotic dance of lights.
Seo Square Fountain
Artificial Humans by Atelier Haute Cuisine
Several life-size human figures are lit up, leading us to reflect on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence. Their contact with water, an element associated with life and purity, becomes the setting for these artificial figures.
Stone Bridge
Colosses by Louxor Spectacle
The colossi of light in the area around the bridge give rise to a visual metaphor concerning human fragility against the forces of nature. An artistic show that combines art with the most emblematic architecture in Zaragoza.