A mesmerizing winter light festival that launched in 2014, Geneva LUX is back for a second edition, taking over major streets and public plazas throughout the Swiss city’s downtown area. The program invites both local and international artists and designers to create these installations, which not only demonstrate artistic innovation, but also technical innovation of how lighting can be manipulated.
For the 2015 edition, the original 10 works from the inaugural year return alongside six new ones, among them a whimsical installation of 48 unique “chandeliers” designed by architecture and design studio Brut Deluxe.
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Titled lux.lge, the luminescent wonderland hovers above a stretch of Rue du Mont Blanc, with the multi-tiered chandeliers appearing to float in a random way. According to the designers, “the artificial atmosphere evokes not only an intense personal experience, but is also intended to manipulate how people move and interact in space by creating areas of different densities and altering color schemes in order to perceive the installation differently at each point of view.”
Photos by Miguel de Guzman
Ilmex realized the chandeliers — ranging in diameter from 24.6 to 98.4 inches — using a total of 2,700 LEDs, 3,900 feet (1,200 meters) of LED rope, 2,100 feet (650 meters) of LED micro-light cord, and 200 feet (60 meters) of LED tape light.
Photos by Miguel de Guzman
“Our installations are generally inspired by, and recreate in abstract form, images in our personal reminiscence to give passersby an intense atmospheric sensation that evokes these collective memories and experiences just by light.”