Luzinterruptus

We already have a new project online.

Caressing Zone is an immersive light installation made up of hundreds of translucent arms and hands suspended above the audience, moving slowly with the wind and softly brushing against those who walk through the space.

With this piece we want to introduce into public space a gesture normally reserved for intimacy: the caress. The installation reflects on softness, care, physical contact, and the presence of bodies inside cities often shaped by hardness, speed, and control.

The arms are made from translucent fabrics similar to white women’s stockings, illuminated from within by a soft cold light and constantly activated by air, movement, and the interaction of visitors.

At a time like this, filling public space with gestures of care and caresses almost starts to feel like a subversive act.

You can read the full project text now on our website.

We already have a new project online.

Caressing Zone is an immersive light installation made up of hundreds of translucent arms and hands suspended above the audience, moving slowly with the wind and softly brushing against those who walk through the space.

With this piece we want to introduce into public space a gesture normally reserved for intimacy: the caress. The installation reflects on softness, care, physical contact, and the presence of bodies inside cities often shaped by hardness, speed, and control.

The arms are made from translucent fabrics similar to white women’s stockings, illuminated from within by a soft cold light and constantly activated by air, movement, and the interaction of visitors.

At a time like this, filling public space with gestures of care and caresses almost starts to feel like a subversive act.

You can read the full project text now on our website.

Some years ago we were invited to imagine proposals that could help women feel safer in the city through small interventions in those residual spaces where insecurity often appears: poorly lit streets, forgotten corners or places outside the usual routes.

The invitation was not accidental. For many years we have developed projects addressing different forms of inequality affecting women, often through small guerrilla interventions in public space.

From that reflection emerged Signage of Care, a proposal that reimagines a familiar urban device: the electronic message panels normally used to announce road works or traffic warnings. Instead of signalling danger, these panels would display short messages of support directed at women.

The idea is simple: mobile signalling trailers equipped with programmable luminous panels could be temporarily placed in different parts of the city, displaying brief phrases that might help women feel safer as they move through urban space.

These messages could emerge from conversations and workshops with women from the city itself, where they would identify places they avoid or cross with unease and decide which words they would like to encounter there.

The installation could take different forms: trailers dispersed across the city marking specific locations, gathered together as a collective installation, or aligned along a street forming a sentence that only reveals itself while walking through the space.

Technically the system is deliberately simple. These trailers already exist as road-sign devices that can be easily rented in many cities, allowing quick, mobile and reusable installations.

As in many of our projects, we are interested in transforming ordinary urban tools into devices capable of generating presence, conversation and care.

We hope to see this proposal one day appear in the streets. Because even something that should be obvious —being able to move safely through the city— still needs to be claimed.

More visual documentation can be found on our website. www.luzinterruptus.com