Lita Albuquerque will create a new iteration of her iconic 1978 site-specific land art work Malibu Line on June 22 and 23, 2024 in Malibu, California. The installation is curated by Ikram Lakhdhar and presented by the Los Angeles Nomadic Division.
Originally created in 1978, Malibu Line was a direct mark on the land that connected the viewer to the earth and to the horizon. By virtue of a slight optical illusion, the line both spatially and symbolically linked land to sky, and sky to the ocean horizon beyond. The artwork signaled a turning point in Albuquerque’s practice. Instead of painting on two dimensional surfaces, Albuquerque began to create on the earth, drawing the viewer’s attention to a relationship outside of themselves and to the land.
The new iteration of Malibu Line also commences a multi-year project in which Albuquerque continues her career-spanning work of reorienting perspectives. Beginning in 2024, this project will connect her current home in California with her first home in Tunisia by way of another pigment installation located in North Africa. With the ocean serving as the conductor between these two sites, Albuquerque again uses the planet to create expansive, perspective shifting artworks.
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