Last May, we were invited by the City Council of Malaga to carry out a light installation during La Noche en Blanco.
The chosen piece was On Blank Pages, which we have already presented in many cities around the world and which has become one of our favorites, as it allows for real interaction with visitors, who become the true creators of the piece, which is transformed and filled with meaning through their contributions.
The purpose of the piece has remained the same as on previous occasions: to create a large-scale, poetic installation—a wall of free expression where citizens can show their thoughts without censorship, made of light and sound. A large wall covered with thousands of white-sheet notebooks invades the public space and hosts a monumental collage of anonymous and intimate interventions, which the wind moves at random, offering the viewer millions of compositions—the result of collective contributions.
In this case, we used around 2,000 white-sheet notebooks, made from recycled paper, which we illuminated and left on display for visitors and citizens of the city to freely interact with.
Although it is a light-based piece, we couldn’t prevent morning passersby from leaving their messages. We enjoyed the interaction that took place, as many people left notes for their loved ones, which they later photographed and sent via mobile messages and social media, ensuring that their wishes and memories traveled around the world. Let’s not forget that Malaga is one of the cities in Spain with the most international visitors.
And so, such an analog piece, thanks to a digital interaction alien to us, became an improvised communication channel full of messages of affection that traveled far and wide in the virtual universe.
