British artist Bruce Munro to create a field of light from nearly 10,000 "flowers" on Riga's Daugava embankment

An outdoor light art exhibition called "Gaisma sauc krastā" ("Light Calls to the Shore") will take place on the Daugava embankment in the Andrejsala district of Riga, Latvia, from 14 to 18 November. Held in the Riga Waterfront area to mark Latvia's birthday, it will feature four light installations. The centrepiece is a work by Bruce Munro, a British contemporary light artist known worldwide. The event is free to attend, according to Riga Waterfront.

Munro's "Field of Light"

This will be the first time Munro's "Field of Light" is shown in Latvia. The installation consists of nearly 10,000 thin light stems, each topped with a sphere of light resembling a flower. They are spread over an area larger than a football pitch, glowing slowly and changing colour. Visitors can walk through the installation in the dark. A Riga Waterfront representative described the experience as having become the artist's calling card worldwide. Munro's works have drawn thousands of people at locations ranging from Uluru in Australia and Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania to cities in the United Kingdom, South Korea, Denmark, Mexico and Japan.

The other works

Latvian artist Māris Kalve's piece "Hidden Horizons" plays with figures of surprising scale: a glass tank of turquoise water recalling the port's history, an old lift, and a train that turns into a creature half human, half robot. The figures are placed on the Andrejosta shore.

"Power Station Chimneys" consists of light projections onto the former Riga power station, one of the most recognisable silhouettes on the Daugava embankment. According to its authors, the engineering team Those Guys Lighting, a site that once produced energy for the city is now becoming a light object itself.

Dr. Ilze Ekls's installation "The Past in the Future" presents, in the author's conception, the past, present and future as one continuous flow of events. Images appear, layer over one another and transform, revealing heritage as a living process.

Over the five evenings, visitors can walk along the shore, stop at each of the four works and view them up close.