Video: Light installation Pharmacy Herbs against light pollution in Madrid
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
With light installations Spanish artists of the association Luzinterruptus readers of Cultural Studies have long been familiar. From time to time, these guys excite not only their native Spain, but also other states by waging a kind of "cultural war" with those who do not care about ecology and environmental health. And recently, these creators have focused on the problem light pollution, as relevant as possible on the streets of Madrid. Light pollution may not be so toxic, but still dangerous, and it affects primarily the moral and psychological health of people. So, the authorities of Madrid allowed pharmacies to install super-bright signs over the entrance, and now the green light of the pharmacy "crosses" literally floods the city, interrupting even the light of the stars in the sky. A resident of the city, looking up into the night sky, will not see a single flickering point on it. But in the apartments of those people who happened to live near 24-hour pharmacies, even at night it is light from the unnatural green light of the signs, and this does not contribute to a sound and healthy sleep.
Some will say that this problem is far-fetched, but not the artists and designers from Luzinterruptus. Having looked at the problem from their point of view and connected a sense of humor to its solution, the art group planted on the streets of Madrid an installation of "mutant weeds" glowing and shimmering with a poisonous green color. By doing this, they decided to show what awaits us in the future, if light pollution does not stop. Perhaps, near pharmacies, mutated plants, which are distinguished by powerful photosensitivity due to the excessively strong influence of harmful light on them, will really make their way through the asphalt?
Glades of vigorous green shrubs of luminous grass, planted on the streets of the city, silently demand from the Madrid authorities to leave the city such places where residents could be alone with nature and away from the screaming and defiant signage of shop windows, advertisements, advertisements and other "light hindrances" …
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