Art & Culture in a Time of Climate Crisis

A La Luz – meaning “to bring to light” – is an artist-led platform founded by environmental artists David Cass & Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero, with coordination support from Ivana Larrosa. We showcase environmentally engaged artistic 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 organizing 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, 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 events and publish resources 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, integrity, and collective purpose.