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2011 Lumens, Festes Decennals de la Mare de Déu de la Candela ,

Valls, Tarragona, ES

Darken a route, Intervention, January 2011

To turn off the public street lighting along a particular route during an hour and a half on the night of 27 January 2011.

For the opening of the «Lumens» exhibition series, a celebration of light as a symbol of protection, I carried out an unannounced intervention during the inaugural tour to draw attention to the route shown on the exhibition brochures. The intervention deactivates the safety aspect of the street lighting and lets the absence of light point the way.

A police report documented the action and the police operation to guarantee public safety.

PDF (CAT) Leaflet Lumens 2011

Catalog Lumens 2011-Intervention Luz Broto

Photographic documentation: Raquel Calvo, Marc Llibre

Production: Servei de Mantenimen Municipal de l’Ajuntament de Valls, UTE Electomecánica Soler- Aquagest

Police report: Soledat Brumos Paz

Thanks to: Jordi Paris, Cèlia del Diego, Soledat Brumos Paz, Xavi Pena, Esther Fabregat, Blai Mesa, Paloma Ponton.

This proposal took place in the framework of 2011 Lumens, curated by Cèlia del Diego, organized by Museu de Valls and la Fundació Festes Decennals de la Mare de Déu de la Candela de Valls, with works by Bill Viola, Ann Veronica Janssens, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Soledad Sevilla, James Turrell und Xavier Veilhan, Ignasi Aballí, Iván Navarro and Ester Partegàs.