Anonymous Madrid-based art group LuzInterruptus draws public attention to social and environmental issues in the city (decommissioned public swimming pools, nuclear power, shrinking green space, abandoned sites, etc) by creating ‘light interventions’ (not to be confused with ‘heavy interventions’) – temporary LED installations. They say:
We began to act on the streets of Madrid at the end of 2008 with had the simple idea of focusing people´s attention by using light on problems that we found in the city and that seem to go unnoticed to the authorities and citizens. But everything that we do does not have a subversive aim. Sometimes we simply want to embellish, or to highlight anonymous places or corners that seem special or objects to which we think extraordinary artistic value, although they have been left on the streets for unknown reasons, with artistic intention, by anonymous people.
