Andorran Artists Debut Light Installations at Manresa's Jardins de Llum Festival

Three Andorran artists will feature their light installations at this weekend's Jardins de Llum festival in Manresa's historic centre. Naiara Galdós, Anna Mangot, and Pere Moles join the event through a debut presentation by Andorran cultural project firm Reunió de Papaia, which is bringing five works in total.

Galdós and Mangot reprise pieces from the recent L'Andart25 biennial in Andorra la Vella. Mangot's *Cabdal* weaves silk, light, and music into a flowing river that highlights water as a vital yet vulnerable resource needing collective protection. Galdós's *Som il·lusions* fills a cube of recycled plastic with immersive, diffused silhouettes linking human presence to the natural world, both seen and unseen.

Moles debuts a new work, *Emergència*, in Plaça de Sant Domènec. Built from 200 homologated V16 road emergency beacons, it spells out "Emergència" to underscore how alarms—clinical, climatic, democratic, or war-related—have shifted from rare interruptions to a constant backdrop of modern life.

Reunió de Papaia rounds out its contribution with two more L'Andart25 standouts: Luis Machi's *Sleeping*, a luminous piece depicting a city's deceptive calm while hinting at underlying stories, memories, and hidden activity; and Filthy Luker's *Krakens*, tentacle-like projections that turn architecture into a playful pop fantasy blending humour and surprise, previously displayed on the old Hotel Pol facade.

The festival transforms Manresa into an itinerary of around 20 ephemeral light and water installations across urban and heritage spaces, as part of the Festa de la Llum. It has established itself as a key showcase for light art in Catalonia.