Solar Echo

This is a site-specific performance achieved through the “living” use of a sculpture made of broken mirrors, specially designed for the Urban Art Biennial 2026. The performance pays tribute to the site and its workers—approximately 17,000 people—who have worked there over the course of more than a century.

“Reviving the fire” through the diffraction of natural light in this iron cathedral, where silence and nature have reclaimed their rights since 1986.
The goal is to poetically and contemplatively reactivate this distinctive industrial landscape through the lens of the artefact designed to protect pyrometallurgy workers who extracted molten iron to produce steel in the blast furnaces. To re-examine, through a contemplative approach, the activity and meaning of this architecture today, as well as the historical dimension of this heritage in our society…