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# 'The Photography, the Poetry, the Fashion.' Hans Ulrich Obrist Remembers the Multi-Dimensional Spirit of Artist Luchita Hurtado

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## Hans Ulrich Obrist


Aug 20, 2020 10:04 AM UTC

![Hurtado at London’s Serpentine Gallery last year](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07b5abcb70c5f662/698a11888fd2ee685e361ab0/luchita-hurtado-obituary-lede-vertical.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

Hurtado at London’s Serpentine Gallery last year

Hurtado at London’s Serpentine Gallery last yearAnna Watson—Camera Press/Redux

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## Hans Ulrich Obrist


Aug 20, 2020 10:04 AM UTC

Luchita Hurtado and I met in early 2017 and soon after started to collaborate on an exhibition of her work for the Serpentine Galleries. My memories of her are ones of endless revelation. It was an incredibly intense dialogue. Each time we would speak, a new dimension of Luchita would become visible–the painting, the drawing, the photography, the poetry, the fashion.

Luchita–who died Aug. 13, just months before her 100th birth-day and only about a year after the opening of that show, her first international retrospective–connected in a holistic way to the natural world. She explored ecology in her painting and lived it in terms of not buying clothes but rather designing them herself. “We are a species, just like the dinosaurs, and just like the dinosaurs we are not in charge of the world like we seem to want to be. We have to think of all the living things in this world as our relatives,” she once told me. “Sometimes now I find myself touching trees and communicating with them, feeling that they’re feeling what I’m feeling. I talk to them, saying how beautiful they are and how sorry I am that they need water and I haven’t got any.”

In a lot of ways, Luchita showed us that we need to consider a more expansive understanding of life–not just from the short-term perspective of the clock but from the long-term perspective of the cyclical nature of time.

_As told to Anna Purna Kambhampaty_ 

_Obrist is the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries_

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