REFLECTIONS... now
LYDIA AZOUT
On View: March 8 - May 1, 2026
Dot Fiftyone Gallery will present Lydia Azout: Reflections…now, the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, coinciding with the release of her monographic book chronicling five decades of her practice. The exhibition features new works including stainless steel sculptures, photographic installations printed on aluminum and enhanced with gold paint, and a video installation in the Project Room.
Azout’s work has long explored the intersection of geometry, nature, and spirituality. She transforms industrial materials such as iron and steel into structures that balance fragility and monumentality, often held together by a single point—a formal strategy that has defined her sculptural language for over fifty years. A formative experience during a Caribbean hurricane reinforced her engagement with vulnerability, scale, and the elemental forces of nature, resulting in works that reflect both chaos and calm, darkness and light, and ultimately, resilience.
A central figure in Colombian and Latin American modernism, Azout has drawn from pre-Hispanic cosmologies and sacred landscapes to develop a neo-totemic sculptural practice. Her seminal Fuerzas Agustinianas (Augustinian Forces, 1986, MAMBO, Bogotá) exemplifies her ability to integrate space, ritual, and symbolic meaning into formal abstraction. In Reflections…now, Azout continues her exploration of transformation, presenting works conceived not as fixed objects but as dynamic elements within an organic cycle.
Reflections…now reaffirms Azout’s enduring influence on contemporary sculpture, where geometry, ecology, and spirituality converge.