PAISAJES TENDIDOS (HANGING LANDSCAPES) [Low-tech intervention created with white fabric, wind, light and the smell of cleanliness]
Luzinterruptus
Spain

From 12 to 14 March
From 7.30pm to midnight

Explanada Multiusos in Madrid Río Park - Explanada Negra

For decades, the River Manzanares served as a vast open-air laundry site. Well into the 20th century, hundreds of women washed clothes by hand in the river. It was gruelling work that was poorly paid and undervalued, yet it was essential for sustaining daily life in Madrid. Luzinterruptus uses this memory to create a site-specific installation in which more than one hundred suspended sheets, illuminated with cold light and moving freely in the air, form a large, walkable clothesline that connects body, memory and urban landscape.

*INSTALLATION SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR LUZMADRID 2026

Luzinterruptus is an anonymous art collective that has worked with light in the urban landscape since 2008. Its art takes the form of critical interventions and actions that focus on social, environmental and public space themes. The collective has completed over fifty projects and taken part in international festivals and events. In all of them, light is used as a tool for citizen engagement and collective reflection.

Artistic creation: Luzinterruptus

Location

The Explanada Negra is a large, open space located next to the Greenhouse of Arganzuela Crystal Palace and 300 metres from the Matadero Madrid complex, to which the esplanade belongs. Originally designed as a functional area associated with the complex’s production activities, today it serves as a public space and venue for cultural, artistic and community events and activities.