A La Luz (to bring to light) is an artist-led platform, founded to showcase environmentally engaged practices across disciplines, grounded in the belief that art can illuminate the urgent, layered realities of our ecological moment. We believe that environmental art holds the power to express complex ideas, offering space for reflection, resistance, grief, connection and hope in the face of planetary crisis. Through creativity, we explore not only what is being lost, but what might still be possible.
A La Luz is the organising body behind Points of Return – a project that began as an online exhibition and later evolved into a physical show, gathering artists whose work speaks to environmental tipping points and potential paths forward. Building on this foundation, our current project Films of Return extends the project into the realm of moving image. Our platform is rooted in collaboration, curiosity and attention. We share work across forms – visual art, performance, sound, text, architecture and more – highlighting practices that reflect not only on environmental themes but also on the impact of how we create and share.
Alongside exhibitions and screenings, we host public events and publish articles for and from artists, writers and thinkers. At every step, we ask what it means to make art in a time of climate crisis – and how we can do so with care and collective purpose.
Founded in 2014 by:
David Cass
Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero
Coordination support:
Ivana Larrosa
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