{"id":24577,"date":"2025-12-16T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=24577"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:34:08","slug":"christmas-tree-for-minimally-festive-times-arbol-de-navidad-para-tiempo-minimamente-navidenos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=24577","title":{"rendered":"Light Exercise for Christmas Trees in Minimally Festive, Maximally Warlike Times \/ Ejercicio de luz para \u00e1rboles de Navidad en tiempos m\u00ednimamente festivos y m\u00e1ximamente b\u00e9licos (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since we began working with light, we have used this time of year as a critical exercise. Each year we imagine a Christmas decoration that we know will never be carried out, but that helps us think about the moment we are living in and the contradictions we too easily accept.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Inevitably, we return to the theme of war, even though we know it no longer shocks. War has become part of our daily lives and coexists seamlessly with the normality of our celebrations.<\/p>\n

For this light exercise, simply showing war where it is expected is no longer enough. It has to be taken to the places where it truly disturbs: where it is anti-aesthetic, where it breaks the staging of optimism and consumption. That is why we return once again to the Christmas tree, the element that dominates public space in almost any city.<\/p>\n

The piece we imagine this year would be easy to produce. We would use the standard conical light structures that cities rent to build Christmas trees, covering them with translucent white fabric, backlit from inside with a cold, uniform light. Around the form, barbed wire would wrap the structure, with no ornaments, no colour, no added decorative elements, no embellishment of any kind.<\/p>\n

This is not a celebration, nor a decorative proposal. It is simply an uncomfortable image placed in a festive context. We know it will not happen, but imagining it offers a small consolation and slightly relieves, if only for a moment, the excess of light that presses on our stomachs at this time of year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Desde que trabajamos con la luz, utilizamos estas fechas como un ejercicio cr\u00edtico. Cada a\u00f1o imaginamos una decoraci\u00f3n navide\u00f1a que sabemos que no se llevar\u00e1 a cabo, pero que nos sirve para pensar el momento que vivimos y las contradicciones que aceptamos con demasiada facilidad.<\/p>\n

Como no pod\u00eda ser de otro modo, volvemos a la tem\u00e1tica b\u00e9lica, aun sabiendo que ya no impacta en absoluto. La guerra forma parte de nuestra cotidianidad y convive sin fricci\u00f3n con la normalidad de nuestras celebraciones.<\/p>\n

Por eso, para este ejercicio lum\u00ednico no basta con mostrar la guerra donde se espera verla: hay que llevarla a los lugares donde verdaderamente molesta, por antiest\u00e9tica, porque rompe la escenograf\u00eda del optimismo y el consumo. Volvemos as\u00ed al \u00e1rbol navide\u00f1o, ese que domina el espacio p\u00fablico de cualquier ciudad que se precie.<\/p>\n

La pieza que imaginamos este a\u00f1o ser\u00eda f\u00e1cil de realizar. Utilizar\u00edamos las estructuras c\u00f3nicas de luz est\u00e1ndar que se alquilan para construir los \u00e1rboles navide\u00f1os, cubri\u00e9ndolas con tela blanca transl\u00facida retroiluminada desde el interior con una luz fr\u00eda y uniforme, mientras la concertina envolver\u00eda la forma sin adornos, sin color, sin elementos decorativos a\u00f1adidos, sin abalorio alguno.<\/p>\n

No se trata de una celebraci\u00f3n ni de una propuesta decorativa. Es simplemente una imagen inc\u00f3moda colocada en un contexto festivo. Sabemos que no se har\u00e1, pero imaginarla nos consuela m\u00ednimamente y rebaja, aunque sea por un instante, el empacho lum\u00ednico que nos presiona el est\u00f3mago en estas fechas.<\/p>\n

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