Kohn Gallery is pleased to present a special event celebrating the exhibition of Lita Albuquerque: Liquid Light, an official Collateral Event of La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
On June 25, the gallery will host a double screening of Liquid Light, the central film in the multi-screen exhibition and installation of the same name, currently on view as a Collateral Event of La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2022. As part of the night’s program, the artist will give an introduction and insight on the exhibition presented at La Biennale di Venezia. Albuquerque is joined by Nicole McDonald, the editor of Liquid Light and one of Albuquerque’s collaborators, and Elizabeta Betinski, curator for Liquid Light at the Biennale and director of bardoLA. The night will feature two screenings, the first at 5:00 pm followed by the final screening at 7:00 pm. The artist has produced a limited edition print that will be on view in Gallery 3 during the evening’s festivities. A celebratory reception for the artist is set to take place in between screenings.
Liquid Light is the second film in a trilogy surrounding a story created by Albuquerque about a 25th-century female astronaut who descends to planet Earth to spread interstellar consciousness. In the 27-minute narrative film, the female astronaut transmits an otherworldly knowledge across the planes of the celestial and terrestrial. Hers is a subjectivity constituted in the space between the outer reaches of the imagination and the emotionally submerged land she discovers on Earth. Mirroring the threshold state in which humanity finds itself today, Albuquerque’s heroine is likewise caught between light and darkness, unable to avoid a metamorphosis triggered by her initial failure to communicate the poetics of Cosmic harmony to Earth’s inhabitants.
Conceived and directed by Lita Albuquerque, filmed in Bolivia by David McFarland, and performed by dancer Jasmine Albuquerque, the film takes us to the Salar de Uyuni, the largest and highest salt flats in the world, as well as Lake Titicaca, home of many ancient myths surrounding gold and light.
Film Credits:
Choreography and dance by Jasmine Albuquerque
Cinematography by David McFarland
Editing by Nicole McDonald
Costumes by Jillian Oliver
Co-produced by Briana Gonzales
Co-produced and drone footage by Marc Breslin
