Acclaimed Brazilian artist Regina Silveira reimagines this year’s Luminato Festival Hub at David Pecaut Square with her installation Glossary, a large-scale play on the word “light.” Best known for her explorations of space through optical illusions and geometric constructions, Glossary touches on Silveira’s interest in light and shadow, and the interaction of images with constructed spaces.

Commissioned specially for Luminato Festival, Glossary incorporates a series of coloured, translucent marquees that form a playful pathway bathing Festivalgoers in countless words for light from dialects and languages from across Canada and around the world. At night, the city is illuminated with lasers, as handwritten words for “light” dance across buildings in the downtown core. Visit the Festival Hub and engage with Glossary as it interacts with the cityscape around David Pecaut Square.

Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Silveira has won a Brazilian Art Critics Association Award for Life and Work. She has had a solo show at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, and her work is represented in public collections internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Miami Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Silveira has experimented with a variety of visual imagery. The most popular of her works are site-specific interventions that transform blank walls and floors, or empty architectural or urban spaces, into her desired playgrounds.