62|REPORTAJE ICAL 2016: A photography competition where light plays the leading role The award ceremony for the second edition of the International Competition of Photography in Artificial Lighting, that took place on May 26, 2016, was organized by the Workshop of Lighting Studies of the ETSAB and iCandela. During this special gala, the various awards were handed and the guests enjoyed a special evening, with the presence of the architect Daniel Freixes and a transitory exposition created for the occasion by Lupercales in collaboration with Ara Darriba and students of TEL. The latent image: A transitory light installation created for the occasion. For the award ceremony of the second edition of the ICAL 2016, a especial lighting installation was created: “La imagen latente” (The latent image), proposed by the collective Lupercales in collaboration with Ara Darriba and the Workshop of Lighting Studies of the ETSAB. The reference taken as premise for the design of this installation were the classical processes of developing and printing of photographs. The space where it was projected was exposed to natural light and it had been decided not to obscure it, so they chose to wait until twilight to achieve an appropriate amount of darkness in which to proceed so the proposed image could “develop”. The concept of “latent image” (title of the installation), is used in photography on silver emulsion, the classic photograph in negative. It makes allusion to the image that becomes impressed when the negative is exposed but remains invisible until the developing process is completed. It has to do with desire and time. It lingers, invisible, in the silver molecules; it’s an image in potency. On the basis of this, the proposal for the installation consisted on generating an image that only becomes completely visible as time progresses and which plays with elements such as the red light flooding the darkroom and the transparency of the negatives in the filters on the windows. The gift for patience (the revealed image) is a cozy space of transition between the interior and the exterior, created by the sinuous shapes of the perimeter brick wall, a product of the expansion of the building, carried out by José Antonio Coderch.