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SpY: Moon

As part of the festival “Art and Science” at university EPFL in Lausanne the urban artist SpY created an installation of a giant moon in first quarter (waxing crescent).

The piece was performed as part of the festival “Art and Science” on university EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. SpY was invited to meet the university, and he liked to watch the reaction of the students when they came out at night and discovered that the campus was lit with a moon after a day of work.

Moon was installed by an industrial crane for 7 days in April and it was turned on only during the night.

“I try to be receptive to the dialogue with the city that for many years has been the framework where I have expressed and communicated my ideas. I likes to generate some type of reaction with his work, I try to awake and create a more lucid conscience with my interventions. Irony and humor is a way to make the receiver an accomplice, create a dialogue and make one think that the work communicates something with which one identifies. They are small bits of intention that make the person who receives them see their routine as an urbanite hatching. If the passer-by who sees the piece likes it, they see the work as a romantic act and will take part of the intervention with them.” Explains SpY.