Artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx (Brussels, 1958) presents her first individual exhibition in Spain. Conceived specifically for the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid’s Parque del Retiro, the installation recreates and subtly maximizes the exceptional lighting conditions of this nineteenth-century pavilion. A trio of “light beams” literally and metaphorically creates a luminous module that gives life to this space.

Tuerlinckx will complement this work, created especially for the occasion, with archive materials and a grouping of sculptures to be exhibited in the Sabatini Building—a space that also reacts to changes in light, but with very different symbolic and physical circumstances from those at the Palacio de Cristal.

Although Joëlle Tuerlinckx’s artistic production is intimately linked to nature, it cannot be reduced to a mere relationship with the latter. Rather, nature serves as a gaze cast onto the outside world, which is captured by both chance mechanisms that condition visual experience and the conventions through which this gaze has been constructed.