In The Brooklyn Rail, Adam Ludwig writes on Crossing Time, a group exhibition at CalTech featuring Lita Albuquerque.
A new work by California artist Lita Albuquerque, This Moment in Time (2024), comprises gold leaf papered over a concrete pathway that cuts through Caltech Pond. The metal shudders, lifting away from its surface at any breeze. Such an installation is subject to all kinds of intervention and disturbance, despite the metal stanchions sitting on either side of the bridge. On one of my visits, a stray half of a ping pong table sat perpendicular to the bridge, as if frustrated that it could not cross. On other days, shimmering footprints of flattened gold leaf refracted across the bridge’s otherwise shaggy surface, likely belonging to a student who was rushing between classes—traces of a turf war between art and science.
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