The Ruins de Antigua will become a canvas for the second edition of the Festival de la Luz, where art, architecture and videomapping will merge into the colonial city. This event will tell stories through light in the most emblematic spaces, on July 18 and 19.
The 2025 edition of the Festival will have magical realism, in tribute to Latin American writers referring to this literary current.
The guest artists will take their videomaking proposals to six historical monuments, which will exalt the beauty of projected art and the stories told.
A new edition of the Antigua Light Festival arrives, a celebration where art, heritage and community are intertwined in a single glow, the organization invites the public to the event.
In addition, the organizers announced that three town parks will be illuminated through light structures that will immerse visitors in the stories and literature of this theme.
With guests such as Julian Holsher, Albane Chaumet, Félix Michel, Bianca Turner, Francisco Sandoval, Daniela Pinto, among others, the projections will be held from 19 to 1 hours, uninterruptedly, so that antiques and visitors enjoy this festival.
With six historical monuments and three parks, the festival will pay tribute to magical realism (photo free press: Emilio Chang)
The production of Antigua Viva details that, for this space, the monuments that will be illuminated in the second edition are:
- La Merced
- Jesus Company
- San José Cathedral
- San Francisco Temple
- School of Christ
- The remedies
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In addition, he indicated that this year’s light installation will be located in:
- The union tank
- BELÉN PARK
- Alameda Santa Rosa
They will be two nights inspired by magical realism, where memory, earth and dreams will come alive on the walls of the monuments that have seen us grow, details the invitation in networks of the Antigua Light Festival.