Au cœur des déserts à la Patinoire royale - At the heart of the deserts at the Patinoire Royale
In the Belgian paper La Libre, Roger-Pierre Turine writes on Lita Albuquerque's exhibition, Early Works.
A magical place in its own right, the august Patinoire Royale, run by Valérie Bach, is innovating once again by offering itself, in an unprecedented version of its reconversions over time and, for the last ten years, of its exhibitions, a kind of Land Art installation which, while interior, nonetheless develops a prodigious introspection of space and time.
We had the pleasure of visiting this space, which has been given a very natural, almost sacred vibration, as Lita Albuquerque carried out her task of shaping and shaping materials with the awareness of a forager of clues, emotions and the meticulous concretization of her thoughts, her drive and her frantic confrontation between sites and underlying virtues.
Albuquerque is a magician in the way she orchestrates her expectations, given that, at the time, she was acting on the sites as a sort of priestess of undertones that she set out to elucidate through acts in the field.
Is the fact that she was a woman to blame for her work's lack of recognition, while the Land Art of men had acquired a fantastic aura? In any case, thanks to Valérie Bach and, no doubt, also to her participation in the Venice Biennale in 2022, she has been hoisted onto a flagpole that is richly deserved.
Read more on La Libre.
