Pablo Valbuena's Light Installations at Centquatre Paris

Pablo Valbuena's exhibition 'Si le temps est un lieu' at Centquatre in Paris (January 19 to March 24, 2019) presents installations and documentation spanning his career since the mid-2000s. The artist uses light to activate or reconfigure pre-existing spaces. His seminal work 'Augmented Sculpture' (2007) is shown in the venue's workshop, where it slows time for viewers and evokes Kazimir Malévitch's Architectones from the early 1920s. The exhibition includes three rooms of video documentation curated by Centquatre director José-Manuel Gonçalvès, offering a comprehensive view of Valbuena's practice. Notable is 'Formas de tiempo [4400]' (2014), where light is absent except for theatrical illumination, and performers reconfigure the piece daily. Two new light installations use empty space as a screen, creating contemplative rhythms. The title references the idea that time can be a place, echoing Harald Szeemann's 1969 exhibition 'When Attitudes Become Form' at Kunsthalle Bern.