As a graphic artist, she is fascinated with the significant relationship between colour and form. As an illustrator, she is a visual storyteller. And as a lighting designer, the analysis of architecture and light form the basis of her work. Using light and image, colour and movement, Ghiju Díaz de León creates large-scale projections in urban spaces, creating a collage of coloured surfaces and picture fragments on building facades.

The imagery projected directly onto buildings has its basis in architectural analyses and thematic research. In the exploration of the story, the function and the atmosphere of a particular location, she gathers impressions, phrases and images that can be interpreted as testimonials. At the point where these aspects enter into a visual bond with the building, they become meaningful ornaments adorning her architecture projections.

Ghiju Díaz de León takes the friction point between reality and projection to reproduce the spatially defining medium of architecture around the temporally restricted medium of light, enabling her to treat the existing architecture as a dynamic structure. In the interplay between pictorial elements and graphic, contrasting coloured surfaces, she transforms architectural ensembles into stage-like spaces that change one’s view of everyday events.

LichtRouten Piece: Fascination of Archives
The rear facade of the former courthouse will become an element for a transformation process in which the architectural surface dissolves into magical landscapes. Selected components from this process will be preserved and transferred into an archive. Ghiju Díaz de León wonderfully narrates the story of exhibits in art and curiosity chambers.

LichtRouten-location: Altes Amtsgericht I Philippstraße 29