[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Apollo (The Worldwide Artwork Journal) just lately interviewed Cuban-American artist Teresita Fernández, whose exhibition, “Caribbean Cosmos” is on view at Lehmann Maupin, London, from September 14 to November 5, 2022. [Also see previous post Teresita Fernández: Caribbean Cosmos.]
The New York-based artist Teresita Fernández is finest recognized for her large-scale installations which take inspiration from the panorama and pure phenomena in addition to numerous historic and significant references. By means of her work, she challenges conventional methods of representing and serious about place by unravelling narratives round colonialism, energy and ecological destruction. Her newest exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in London, titled ‘Caribbean Cosmos’, incorporates a new collection of sculptures and installations that draw on imagery of catastrophic climate and pure disasters as metaphors for hundreds of years of injustice on the Caribbean archipelago, the primary level of colonial contact within the Americas.
The place is your studio? My studio is positioned in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, proper close to the Gowanus Canal, a traditionally industrial space.
[. . .] Do you’re employed alone? I work alone within the very early hours of the morning and after 5PM. In the course of the day, I normally have my trusted studio supervisor and 4 to 5 assistants serving to me with administrative work, making ready surfaces, chopping and laminating charcoal, and many others.
What’s the weirdest object in there? An intact, spiny spondylus shell nonetheless hooked up to its coral matrix.
Which creative device may you least do with out? Bamboo skewers to combine and apply substances, and I additionally use the sharp finish to maneuver tiny items of supplies as I work.
What’s essentially the most well-thumbed guide in your studio? Too many to call! My expensive good friend, the good scholar Miriam Jiménez Román gifted me many books from her library on Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Cuban historical past within the months earlier than she handed away, and it occupies a spot of significance on my bookshelf.
[. . .] Who’s essentially the most attention-grabbing customer you’ve ever needed to the studio? I’d change the phrase attention-grabbing right here to engaged and interesting. My studio visits and ongoing conversations with Cecilia Vicuña are all the time actually nourishing and expansive. [. . .]
For full interview, see https://www.apollo-magazine.com/in-the-studio-with-teresita-fernandez Additionally see https://mosaika.com/mission/teresita-fernandez-caribbean-cosmos-en (contains photographs and two movies) and https://www.instagram.com/teresita.fernandez