THE INSTALLATION

“Lights on – Confindustria Bergamo” was inaugurated for 2023’s Cultural Capital which sees Brescia and Bergamo take the title of the ‘illuminated city’. The installation incorporates a large  site - specific light sculpture which begins as a stand-alone art piece that spreads and travels through a hard-scape floor and several curated seating blocks that all tie together to become a public art piece which creates stages for public interaction along the plaza. Activating this public space across all scales, simultaneously extending to the entirety of the plaza and renewing this location by inserting an element of joyful fun into it. The aim is to define a new vision for an attractive territory aware of its potential. Bergamo dialogues with modernity, starting from its strengths – manufacturing roots and sense of belonging – and combines them with the values of innovation andwith economic, social and environmental sustainability, thanks also to the evocative capacity of art and culture as languages. Reactivate, Reuse and Renew, were the principles which drove the proposal, furthering existingethos that true change comes from re-appreciating and re-purposing that which we already possess. All elements have been designed to have an afterlife, either as a whole, or in parts, each piece is able to be re assembled in a variety of clusters at different locations.The installation, of a temporary nature, is entirely supported by Confindustria Bergamo and was selected in the context of the international contest launched in collaboration with Comune di Bergamo and GAMeC for the design of an urban space called to interpret the theme of the capital of culture "The Illuminated City”.