Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Crystal Times. Reflexions without Sun / Projections without Object

CRYSTAL TIMES.
Reflexions without sun/Projections without object, 2009
Digital model for Room I, Museo Reina Sofía
with STUDY FILMs -series light, wind, sun, 2003-2009
and STUDY FILMs -series Palacio de Cristal, 2009.
©Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Dates: October 9, 2009 - February 22, 2010
Places: Palacio de Cristal and Sabatini Building, Floor 3, Room 305
Organized by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Curated by: Lynne Cooke

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.

Joëlle Tuerlinckx’s work has been exhibited, among other locations, at MAMCo (Geneva, 2007), Documenta (Munster, 2002), MUSAC (León, 2004), The Renaissance Society (Chicago, 2003), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe, 2004), Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst (Ghent, 1999), Galerie de Beaux-Arts (Brussels, 1996) and Witte de With (Rotterdam, 1994).

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