Art & Culture in a Time of Climate Crisis
Founded by environmental artists David Cass & Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero, the aim of A La Luz – which translates from the Spanish as “spotlight” or “to shed light on” – is to be a wide ranging platform for sustainable and environmentally focused creative works. Just as the climate crisis can only be tackled collectively, so too is this art project inclusive and collaborative in nature. Via our blog, A La Luz shares, promotes and acts as a reference tool for creative responses to climate change. This includes all art-forms: from painting to architecture; from theatre to literature.
This new website acts as an online gallery, hosting virtual exhibition series Points of Return, which includes the 2025 film festival Films of Return. The exhibiting artists and filmmakers highlight some of the impacts that human actions have had on our planet and foster critical thinking about positive change. Points of Return references the fact that we haven’t reached the dreaded “point of no return” – there are still many opportunities for our civilisation to curb climate change and move toward a balanced and more sustainable and harmonious way of inhabiting Earth.
Points of Return presents some of the most alarming consequences that our actions have had on nature, but it also highlights hope and the possibility of a bright future for our home planet.
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Felipe de Ávila, Collin Bradford, Fiona Carruthers, David Cass, David Ellingsen, Emilio Fuentes Traverso, Tamara García, Tanja Geis, Angela Gilmour, Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar, Miguel Jeronimo, Bethany Johnson, Michael Krondl, Justin Levesque, Fae Logie, Luke Myers, Tom Rice, Jacinda Russell, Adam Sébire, Miguel Sbastida, Ulrika Sparre, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Evalie Wagner, Erin Woodbrey, Virginia Woods-Jack, Pieter Colyn & Emilie Miller, Planetary Intimacies
Joseph Paul Alvarado, Sarah Bachinger, Ipshita Bhattacharyya, Collin Bradford, Anthony Carr, David Cass, Damien Cattinari, Adam Chitayat, Joshua Ashish Dawson, James DeLisio, Nicole Dextras, Sean Allen Fisher, Felipe De Ávila Franco, Tessa Garland, Bia Gayotto, Alexander Girav, Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar, Emilia Haar, Tom Hansell, Aletta Elizabeth Harrison, Louis Heilbronn, Jessica Houston, Israel Hope Irby, Bethany Johnson, Nick Jordan, Amy Kaczur, Mats Landström, Michaela Lind, Nora Jane Long, Juan López López, Colin Lyons, Tim Laing, Alastair Mackie & Fleur Mackie, Camille Martel, Luke Myers, Amirmahdi Kalantari & Abraham Paul Velázquez Navarro, Kian Peng Ong, Miguel García Orive, Elizabeth Ogilvie & Robert Page, Lau Persijn, Planetary Intimacies, Katie Pustizzi, Marina Rees, Francisco José Vaquero Robustillo, Mike Marshall & Keri Rosebraugh, Kathleen Rugh, Mars Saude, Adam Sébire, Ulrika Sparre, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Heather Bird Harris, Monica Ordóñez & Bryan Tarnowski, Eluned Zoe Aiano & Alesandra Tatić, Iván D'onadío & Gustavo Valdivia, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Takuya Watanabe, Marcelina Maria Wellmer, Sebastian Wiedemann, Erin Woodbrey, Virginia Woods-Jack
“Do visionaries – artists, writers, musicians – have a responsibility to give us new languages and tools to actually do something about our deteriorating world?”
Top banner image: David Ellingsen
Bottom banner image: Ulrika Sparre