This Is What Hundreds Of Illuminated Peppers Looks Like

For their newest installation Nocturnal Peperonata, design group LuzInterruptus traveled to Rosarno, Italy, a small town in Calabria, to set the night on fire. Arriving last September, in time to celebrate the festival of urban regeneration known as A di Città, the group chose to illuminate the pepper, an indigenous vegetable grown in the area for centuries. As part of the project the group gathered 2,000 precious yellow and red peppers, brought from nearby fields, attached lights, and hung them on ropes to create a luminescent natural canopy.

"For 5 days, we prepared the peppers, adding lights and sewing them onto the ropes, forming garlands that were going to illuminate a decadent space for 3 days, during the night in Rosarno," says the group. "It was laborious work, for which we had the help of many residents, visitors to the festival, and the participating artists, who came together in a spontaneous manner, surrounded by boxes of peppers, which with nightfall, the workspace had an intimate red light, inviting confidence. On the last night, with the peppers already hung, there was a dinner under the installation, for all the participants of the festival. On the menu, delicious ³peperonata² pasta made with the leftover peppers, wine, bread and cheeses; what more can one ask for. The next day we left, leaving the installation shining, for all those who had not yet had the opportunity to get close enough to see it."

Below, catch a few images of the project:

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