Fair Water Project Informs Public the Importance of Human Right to Safe Drinking Water
Image courtesy of Spain and Arts Culture
By Angela Hickey
Are you a connoisseur of beautiful art, the outdoors, and public acts of social reform? Then this is the outing for you. This public art piece, titled La Cascada, was created by the group Luizinterruptus. It iis a thirteen foot high and thirty foot long art installation made with almost one thousand recycled plastic buckets sponsored by the Fair Water: A Right of All program.
La Cascada was inspired by the United Nations 2023 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It became a collaborative project between the Embassy of Spain, The Mexican Embassy and it’s Cultural Institute, The Water and Sanitation Cooperation Fund from the Spanish Cooperation, the IDB, and the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade.
The website describes the entire program as “a series of events dedicated to the right to safe drinking water sanitation in the fields of diplomacy, human rights, sustainable development, and arts and culture”.
Luzinterruptus, the creator of this piece, is an anonymous artistic collective that is well known for carrying out various urban interventions in public spaces. The collective is well versed in many different art forms and is well known for its use of, according to their official website, “light as a raw material and night as canvas.” The group began in the streets of Madrid in 2008, and the collective currently works to put a spotlight on problems detected in their city, which the police and other authorities have turned a blind eye to.
The group also wishes to highlight anonymous corners and unknown places they believe to be special. With La Cascada, the group wishes to “present the reality of water scarcity and the struggle to access safe drinking water through one of the most common elements used by every culture to ‘go and fetch water.’” Fair Water: La Cascada, which opened on May 16th, will be on display until September 27th, 2019. It will be on full viewing to the public from the hours of 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., and admission is completely free. It is currently on display on the joint front lawn of the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, at 2801 16th St NW, Washington, DC. Make sure to see this influential piece before it closes for good.
