SGM features at 2017 Lights in Alingsås
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The seven installations light each site, all representing different emotional states.
With help from SGM’s G-4 Wash-Beam, site three portrayed the feelings one gets during a lifetime; with one end of the installation representing the past and negative aspects, while the other end represented the future with personal and professional growth.
Site four was an installation created at the courthouse, to transmit the feelings and experiences one goes through in such a setting.
“Our idea was to show how different stages of concern move within a building structure depending on different scenarios,” explained lighting designers Simon Malmström and Magnus Almung.
SGM’s G-Profile projector was used to illuminate the pathway towards the courthouse entrance escorted by music, dramatically building up the tension. Then, framed by the G-Profile, the audience would reach the front door, marking the beginning of the process.
“We chose the G-Profile because we needed to create an effective movement with a limited amount of installed light sources, not only inside the building, but also outside,” said Malmström and Almung about their choice of fixture.
Using mainly SGM fixtures, site six creatively portrayed the psychological term of transference as a means to pursue happiness.
“I wanted to work with single addressable pixels with low resolution to convey movement over a reflective surface such as the river. That was achieved using SGM’s IP65-rated LB-100 LED balls, which were very easy to assemble,” said lighting designer Miguel Angel V. Calanchini.
The aim of the 2017 edition of the annual Swedish lights event in the southern town of Alingsås was to “transmit feelings with the help of light”. With around 85,000 visitors, the event was a big success.
(Jim Evans)
