The Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition of works by Luchita Hurtado. Tracing the trajectory of Hurtado’s expansive, 80-year career it reveals the scale, experimentation and playfulness of her impressive oeuvre, which uses cosmic motifs and geometric abstractions. Hers is a vision of the human body as a part of the world, not separate from nature, both grounded and transcendental, with unexpected perspectives. She couples intimate gestures of the body with expansive views of the sky and the earth, mapping a visceral connective tissue between us all. Hurtado was associated through friendship and family to specific artistic movements like Surrealism, the Dynaton Group and Magical Realism, but she maintained her unique practice in private, rarely exhibiting her work.
