1^st festival
OF LIGHTS
IN WALLONIA

25-28 January
01-04 February
2024

3km ROUTE
26 INSTALLATIONS
CITY CENTRE
FREE ENTRANCE

The city of Mons is organizing the first light festival in Wallonia.

27 Installations and Light Projections in the City Center

Over 8 evenings, from January 25th to 28th and from February 1st to 4th, between 6:30 pm and midnight, the city center of Mons will be gloriously illuminated with art and light, thanks to a fascinating route designed to host 27 carefully crafted installations and light projections. These will seamlessly blend into the urban setting and the architecture of the historic center.

Accessible to all and completely free, the course highlights local, national, and international talent.

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Starting and ending point of the route: Place Léopold (signposted route).

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Program

Between Poetry and Surrealism

Invited artist: Robert Montgomery (UK)

For the 100^th anniversary of surrealism, the 3 km route’s running theme will be surrealism and poetry. As part of the activities, the festival plans to invite a guest star: Scottish artist, Robert Montgomery. He creates poems on billboards, light installations, fire poems, etchings on wood, paintings and watercolors. His pieces for Mons By Light will echo not only the words of Belgian surrealist poets, but also the city’s characteristic typography and architecture.

“I want my pieces to blend with the architecture of this very special place like a phantom voice; the phantom voice of poetry.”

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Festival images

ORDER200 - Emilien Guesnard

PEOPLE YOU LOVE - Robert Montgomery

JEREMY OURY - Exo-cortex_3.0

ORDER200 par Emilien-Guesnard - Photographe : VincentAssié

HYMN - Antoine Goldschmidt & Ofer Smilansky

Radiance 35

JEREMY OURY - Exo-cortex_3.0

Martin Waroux et Cedric Sabato

Spectaculaires

JEREMY OURY - Exo-cortex_3.0

HYMN - Antoine Goldschmidt & Ofer Smilansky

News

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