Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Albuquerque's multi-media artistic practice has evolved from painting to creating site-specific, pigment-based works in the earth, to performances, and, recently, to incorporating pigments and materials in the studio context. She explores how these materials—charged with history and time—create an intimate connection to the past and the future. For Albuquerque, art conservation is about preserving not just the material objects themselves, but the very essence of human experience—our connection to nature, time, and memory.
In Lita Albuquerque: Dust to Dust (2025), the artist reflects on her creative practice and its influences, from her childhood in Tunisia, to her role in the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles, to her overarching fascination and connection with Earth and cosmos. Albuquerque discusses how her work employs natural pigments, rocks, and salt, reminding us of our link to both the planet and the stars.
This video is part of Getty Conservation Institute's Artist Dialogues video series. This film was developed in collaboration with independent curator jill moniz. Explore the Artist Dialogues series here: https://www.getty.edu/projects/art-in-la/artist-dialogues-video-series/
Albuquerque's multi-media artistic practice has evolved from painting to creating site-specific, pigment-based works in the earth, to performances, and, recently, to incorporating pigments and materials in the studio context. She explores how these materials—charged with history and time—create an intimate connection to the past and the future. For Albuquerque, art conservation is about preserving not just the material objects themselves, but the very essence of human experience—our connection to nature, time, and memory.
In Lita Albuquerque: Dust to Dust (2025), the artist reflects on her creative practice and its influences, from her childhood in Tunisia, to her role in the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles, to her overarching fascination and connection with Earth and cosmos. Albuquerque discusses how her work employs natural pigments, rocks, and salt, reminding us of our link to both the planet and the stars.
This video is part of Getty Conservation Institute's Artist Dialogues video series. This film was developed in collaboration with independent curator jill moniz. Explore the Artist Dialogues series here: https://www.getty.edu/projects/art-in-la/artist-dialogues-video-series/
