The profile of Lara Almarcegui's projects is that of an unflappable awareness of certain habits of construction and, consequently, of the materials used for it. Her work aims, in many cases, to slow down, hinder or hinder certain construction processes through apparently minimal actions and gestures, perhaps prone to only relative repercussions, but undoubtedly rich in their significance.
The exhibition entitled Gravas y arenas, which will be shown in the ample spaces of the Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid, consists of two projects carried out in the city: on the one hand, Almarcegui turns to the characteristic material of the region's historical architecture, the Campaspero stone, with which he will carry out a specific intervention. On the other, she will present a guide to a wasteland on the outskirts of the city, an abandoned gravel pit in the south of the city that exemplifies many of the methods and routines of construction in this context, a type of project that the artist has carried out in about a dozen spaces around the world. In addition, rooms 1 and 2 will host a group of works made at different moments in the artist's career that give context to the new projects and also provide insight into the conceptual origins of the artist and her aesthetic concerns.
