Glimmer, facilitated by Laura Brenchley, seen at Lumiere Durham 2025, is a wonderful example of a community based lightartwork often seen at festivals: a collection of lanterns. The lanterns may be done by a club, a workplace, by students or volunteers, or any group really, existing or gathered for the purpose – here, 400 community members from across County Durham. The process is a community-building one and the result gives pride for the makers, without too much pressure. The sheer volume makes these projects impressive, and a well chosen venue, like here, gives yet another layer for the whole.

I curated a similar-ish project for Lux Helsinki for some years, have to check if I have any decent photos of it.

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The end of Lumiere Durham festival was a bummer to say the least, but photos are plenty and will carry the memories. Here's Emma Allen's Flutter from 2025.

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One more from Nobel Week Lights! By my first gaze, I wasn't too impressed by Victoria Verseau's Limina, but the second and third ones, and moving around the artwork changed all that. Its apparent simplicity conceals a variety of details, views and meanings, that unfold with some time and concentration.

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As I approached Charlotte Landelius's In a Heartbeat at Nobel Week Lights, I feared it would be a tear-jerk commercial for Red Cross. Luckily, I was wrong. I especially praise the editing, which didn't underline but presented the most important seconds to get the message through.

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Divine Geometry by Those Guys Lighting is a hit at light art festivals, and rightly so. In addition to being simple and awesome, it nicely dotted Solsångaren's butt.

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Royal Sky by Janis Petersons also functioned as a fitting background for young dance performers – bringing light art together with performers is one of Nobel Week Lights' specialities.

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One Way or Another by Tom Biddulph creates statements using traffic signs with slightly changed texts. Fun and political!

Seen at Nobel Week Lights, one of my favourite light art festivals, in Stockholm, one of my favourite cities, curated by Lara Szabo Greisman and Hans Davis, two of my favourite persons!

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Another artwork by Gun Gordillo. Stratos plays with semi-opaqueness of the surface, diffusing the light cloud-like. Very beautiful, I'd say.

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Gun Gordillo's neon work Porta Blanca shows a Porta in a form of a transparent but reflective plexiglass and a Blanca in form of neon tubes in a variety of hues of white. Seen at Copenhagen Contemporary, always worth a visit!

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Visit to Nyt Lys at Sophienholm, close to Copenhagen was the scariest art experience for a while. The festival is in the park of the Sophienholm manor, and there is no lighting in the park whatsoever. Also, part of the park is actually woods. Also, it was foggy. And I was all alone in the pitch black park. I was quite sure I wouldn't get out of there in one piece.

I did, but I do have to admit, I walked faster than usual.

The art was very scant on light levels as well, if not in quality. I am biased, but my favourite was Disappearing Event by Elina Brotherus, the artist herself walking into water, projected on a rare light surface in the park.

The festival's last day is tomorrow January 25th. I totally recommend going, just don't go alone!

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