My experiences in Light Art were and continues being the turning points in my relationship with light. I say "was" because Lupercales is in the middle of an indefinite hiatus due to our corresponding personal projects. But I also say that it continues being, because despite not being actively performing installations, the influence of the group in my work lasts to this day and influences my professional practice as a photographer. From the collective work to the bottom up techniques and urban activism like the Urban Tactics used by the collective, they have influenced me as a professional, as a creative and as a person. My interest in social activism linked to architecture and urbanism comes from my time at Lupercales.
El binomio luz-espacio es el fundamento de la creación arquitectónica al menos para las personas videntes que nos relacionamos con el entorno principalmente con el sentido de la vista, en otra conversación hablaremos de la relación de las personas invidentes con la luz, que es algo maravillosamente sensorial. Mi querido compañero en Lupercales Paolo Portaluri escribió un artículo en el que parafraseando el aforismo de Apollinaire “Todo se lo he dado al sol, todo menos mi sombra” decía: “Debo todo al sol, especialmente mi sombra”. Al sol pues le debemos la construcción de volúmenes, gracias a las sombras que arrojan estos al encontrarse con su luz y nos ayudan a leer su geometría. Para concluir, Alberto Campo Baeza dice que la luz es el material más lujoso que tenemos, pero no lo apreciamos porque es gratis. Habla obviamente de la luz del sol y de que el, como otros muchos arquitectos dan forma a sus espacios desde la luz como material.
The relationship between light and space is the headstone to architectural creation, at least for us sighted people who relate to our environment mainly through our sense of sight. In a future conversation we can talk about the relationship between blind people and light, which is something wonderfully sensory. My dear colleague at Lupercales, Paolo Portaluri, wrote a paperwork in which, paraphrasing Apollinaire's aphorism "I have given everything to the sun, everything except my shadow", Paolo said: "I owe everything to the sun, especially my shadow." We owe the construction of volumes to the sun, thanks to the shadows that they cast when meeting the sunlight, and help us to read their geometry. Finally, Alberto Campo Baeza says that light is the most luxurious material we have, but we do not totally appreciate it just because it's free. He obviously speaks of sunlight and that he, like many other architects, shape their spaces using light as a material.