Elsa Paricio
As part of its participation in EUROPALIA ESPAÑA, the Boghossian Foundation presents Biblioteca Nacional, an exhibition designed with Elsa Paricio. For the first time in Belgium, the Spanish artist showcases a corpus of works unfolding in the Project Space of the Villa Empain. The original scenography conceived for the exhibition revolves around the monumental work Biblioteca Nacional (2018–2025). The fruit of six years of work, this project led Elsa Paricio to disseminate glass cylinders filled with a mixture of India ink and water across landscapes, abandoned factories, deserted houses, and natural sites in Spain. Fragile and exposed to the elements, these objects underwent a slow process of evaporation in contact with time and light, becoming silent witnesses of their environment. Their...
As part of its participation in EUROPALIA ESPAÑA, the Boghossian Foundation presents Biblioteca Nacional, an exhibition designed with Elsa Paricio. For the first time in Belgium, the Spanish artist showcases a corpus of works unfolding in the Project Space of the Villa Empain. The original scenography conceived for the exhibition revolves around the monumental work Biblioteca Nacional (2018–2025). The fruit of six years of work, this project led Elsa Paricio to disseminate glass cylinders filled with a mixture of India ink and water across landscapes, abandoned factories, deserted houses, and natural sites in Spain. Fragile and exposed to the elements, these objects underwent a slow process of evaporation in contact with time and light, becoming silent witnesses of their environment. Their surfaces, marked with lines of ink and dust, record the traces of a memory in the making. True ‘landscape-objects’, the cylinders compose a fragmented and poetic national library, where intimate memory and collective identity intertwine. Without imposing a definition, the work invites each visitor to project their own idea of home, territory, or country, and to reflect on the coexistence between our human time and the unyielding time of nature. At the Villa Empain, the artist will extend her gesture by placing two glass cylinders along the exhibition route. This in situ intervention inscribes the work within the very place that hosts it, turning Biblioteca Nacional into an evolving work, destined to be completed and enriched over the course of its exhibitions. Works on paper, videos, and an installation complete the whole. Each piece reflects a moment in the artist’s life, thus transforming her existence into a global artistic project, in perpetual evolution.Opening Hours
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11:00 - 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 11:00 - 18:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 - 18:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 - 18:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00 - 18:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00 - 18:00 |