10 Treurenberg, 1000 Brussels
Bright Festival, from 13 to 16 February 2025, offers you a magical discovery of Brussels.
Over four evenings, more than twenty light installations and just as many sparkling activities will illuminate the capital's Royal and European quarters. Artists from all over the world will be transforming Brussels into an enchanting journey, every evening, from 18:30 to 23:00. Get ready for an unforgettable nocturnal tour, dotted with grandiose works and poetic interludes!
Bright Festival is the best form of light therapy to give you a boost in the depths of winter!
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SÁRGANY (BENCE BARTA & JÁNOS BORSOS): Uranopatia, 2023
Installation (steel, aluminium, electronics, uranium ore, uranium glass, acrylic glass)
While nuclear energy is typically regarded as a 20th-century innovation, natural nuclear reactors created by the spontaneous splitting of uranium are almost two billion years old.
The music formation and art group Sárgany – which borrowed its name from the archaic Hungarian word for uranium – created its latest work specifically for this exhibition with its central element being a speculative object made of uranium glass: a tuning fork used for a fictitious initiation ritual to expose the participants to concentrated radiation*. The glass object is put in motion by the knocking sound of solenoid motors controlled by a uranium-ore-driven eurorack module. Using a Geiger–Müller counter, this module measures the intensity of radiation released by the decomposition of uranium ore and transforms the measurements into random signals. The thus generated vibrations of the glass object are picked up by a microphone and transferred into a sound-box, made using a resonator inside the vitrine. The uranium-oxide in the uranium glass lends the object a strong fluorescence under UV light. Radioactivity, which is unperceived by our senses, is represented sonically by the sound vibrations and visually by the fluorescence. - Borbála Szalai
*The level of radiation in the uranium glass and the eurorack module is minute, thus posing no threat to the health of visitors.
Metalwork: Benqcsbuilt
Electronics: Nervous Squirrel, Péter Márton
Glass-cutting: Rákossy Glass
Special thanks to: Attila Pataky
The artworks will be presented thank to the Light Art Museum in Budapest.
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ANDREA SZTOJÁNOVITS: Oasis, 2021-2023
Light installation
In Andrea Sztojánovits’ work the projection surface and the projected image integrally merge into one. The colours change back and forth and flow into each other on the surface, which appears convex from certain perspectives and concave from others: the mirage of an oasis emerging from the sandy desert is thus transformed into a vision of an island in an endless sea. The viewer’s gaze is bound to rest upon the subtle transformation of the optical illusion created by the slow, meditative waves of colour transitions. - Borbála Szalai
Special thanks: Viola Lukács, Balázs Skoró, Tamás Budha, Áron Zsolt Majoros, Adorján Triff, László L. Laki
The artworks will be presented thank to the Light Art Museum in Budapest.