LARA ALMARCEGUI
Zaragoza, España, 1972
Received the Fundación Botín Art Grant in 1998

Materiales de construcción, Pabellón Español, Venecia, 2013
Framed silkscreen print. Variable dimensions
Ed. 1/3
Acquired in 2013

Materiales de construcción, Pabellón Español, Venecia, 2013
Vinyl on wall. Variable dimensions
Ed. 1/3
Acquired in 2013

Sacca San Mattia, the abandoned island of Murano, 2013
Video on DVD. 13 min
Ed. 1/5
Acquired in 2013

Works produced for the artist’s exhibition at the Spanish Pavilion in Venice, 2013, with the support of Fundación Botín.

Lara Almarcegui has developed an artistic practice grounded in the exploration of the material aspects of land and urban space. For approximately twenty-five years, she has worked in different cities identifying abandoned sites and examining the processes of contemporary transformation brought about by socio-political change. Almarcegui analyses the construction materials used in new buildings and the cyclical relationship between land and architecture. In 2013, she filled the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the very materials required to construct it, thereby transforming it into a ruin.