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Getty Conservation Institute: “Lita Albuquerque: Dust to Dust”
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 (2024), 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.
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 (2024), 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.
Lita Albuquerque: Visions and Reinventions | Frieze Los Angeles 2025
A pioneer of the light and space and land art movements, Lita Albuquerque has always made work in dialogue with the environment and natural forces. In this video, we visit her home in Los Angeles and her nearby land piece Malibu Line (2024), which marks the landscape with the artist’s signature blue pigment in an ancient gesture of protection. She and her husband Carey lost their home in the 2018 Los Angeles fires. More than six years on, they were still reassembling their lives as they watched fires once again sweep through their neighbourhood and the community that had sustained them in their darkest moments.
A pioneer of the light and space and land art movements, Lita Albuquerque has always made work in dialogue with the environment and natural forces. In this video, we visit her home in Los Angeles and her nearby land piece Malibu Line (2024), which marks the landscape with the artist’s signature blue pigment in an ancient gesture of protection. She and her husband Carey lost their home in the 2018 Los Angeles fires. More than six years on, they were still reassembling their lives as they watched fires once again sweep through their neighbourhood and the community that had sustained them in their darkest moments.
Stellar Axis: Lita Albuquerque at the Anderson Collection
In 2006, artist Lita Albuquerque led an expedition to the farthest reaches of Antarctica near the South Pole to create Stellar Axis: Antarctica. This journey included a team of experts, researchers, and artists with Albuquerque at the helm. The resulting installation consisted of an array of 99 fabricated blue spheres, with each placement corresponding to the location of one of 99 specific stars in the Antarctic sky above, creating an earthly constellation at the earth’s pole.
Producer: Taylor Jones
In 2006, artist Lita Albuquerque led an expedition to the farthest reaches of Antarctica near the South Pole to create Stellar Axis: Antarctica. This journey included a team of experts, researchers, and artists with Albuquerque at the helm. The resulting installation consisted of an array of 99 fabricated blue spheres, with each placement corresponding to the location of one of 99 specific stars in the Antarctic sky above, creating an earthly constellation at the earth’s pole.
Producer: Taylor Jones
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