Shedding new light on illumination
Updated on 19 September 2009
Girish Juneja takes a critic of the EU plans to phase out the traditional light bulb to a new exhibition celebrating the low energy alternatives.
It is not often that EU directives inspire cutting edge art shows, but today 23 designers from 13 European countries are taking part in a display to mark the phasing out of low efficiency light bulbs.
The exhibition, housed in a shadowy, disused gallery at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, aims to change the way we think about light, and darkness.
In May Channel 4 News travelled to Tunbridge Wells to meet Jonathan Wright who owns 'Classic Lighting' . He and his customers were angry, complaining that low energy bulbs are not very bright.
He visited the exhibition, In Praise of Shadows, to see if it would change his mind.
"There are some wonderful concepts here," he said. "But I think the real issue still at the moment is our government, along with the European Union government, have actually jumped the gun, in my opinion on banning bulbs."
Pictures from In Praise of Shadows
