Sticks illuminates SPUMA at the Venice Biennial

Nonetheless Vibia is showcasing one of its latest architectural lighting solution designed by Arik Levy, Sticks. The theme of this year’s edition is Design as Self-Portrait, a particularly apt title given the endless possibilities that Sticks represents for customising spaces where literally no area of a space is off limits for creating with light.

A lighting installation featuring Sticks configured by the designer is accommodated within SPUMA – Space for the Arts, on the island of Giudecca within the Venetian lagoon.

The overall exhibition Design as Self-Portrait part II is curated by Luca Berta and Francesca Giubilei and examines the role that design plays in how we express and represent ourselves and construct our identity.

The former industrial space has a raw materiality which is transformed by the lighting and is the ideal showcase for how Vibia as a company conceives its lighting products, architecture and lighting should be indistinguishable.

Sticks offers a flexibility rarely associated with lighting system, conceived as a series of light ‘rods’ the eponymous sticks can straddle a space freely breaking down the notion of ceiling, wall or floor lamps. Sticks is all these and more. Arik Levy explains,

The flexibility and versatility of the Sticks lighting toolkit is possible thanks to its minimal components, an extruded aluminium profile that accommodates led technology and its ball and socket rotating joint. Together any number of configurations is made possible which in order to adapt is simply rotated, by hand; no special equipment required.

If design is at the service of creating a self-portrait then Sticks is certainly one of the more useful tools available.

Credits:
– Photographer: Fernando Alda
– Video: Paco Martín