Diablito de Luz

Rundgang Städelschule, 2022
Frankfurt am Main

Two lightboxes made out of homemade acrylic, cardboard, crescent moon laser-cut shapes and paper copies of cellphonephotos of the interior of a cavern.

’Diablito de luz’ (Spanish) is a device commonly used in Latin America to steal electricity. These devices are placed inside the fuse box in order to alter the meter’s reading of electricity consumption and illegally evade the electric company.