TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ / ROBERT SMITHSON: A CONVERSATION
Artist-led and conceptually driven, Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson is a subjective, intergenerational conversation between two practices, pulling the past into the present. The exhibition at Site Santa Fe critically considers entanglements between place, site, seeing, and deep time through the artists’ mutual engagement with material intelligence, geological agency, and cartographic fictions.
Co-curated by Fernández and Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, the exhibition is initiated by Fernández’s long-term engagement with challenging socially constructed ideas about place and landscape and her immersive research on Smithson’s art and ideas. For over 50 years Smithson’s artistic practice has resonated with generations of artists and thinkers to consider the human impact on the surface of the planet.
Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson brings, for the first time, Smithson’s historic work into a direct conversation with an artist working today. Working with Holt/Smithson Foundation’s collection and supported by key loans from museums around the country, Fernández and Le Feuvre worked to curate a selection of never-exhibited works by Smithson in dialogue with new and recent works by Fernández, offering an intimate exchange between a historic artist and an iconic contemporary artist.
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty [still] (1970) 16 mm film, Color, sound, Duration: 35 minutes, © Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York, Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
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Teresita Fernández, Archipelago (Cervix), 2020 Charcoal 84 x 114.25 inches 213.5 × 290 cm Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London
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Teresita Fernández, Viñales (Plateau), 2020, image courtesy the artist and Phoenix Art Museum © Teresita Fernández
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Teresita Fernández, Caribbean Cosmos (Earth) (Detail), 2023 Glazed ceramic 96 x 192 x 1.25 inches 243.8 x 487.7 x 3.2 cm. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London © Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández (b. 1968) expansively rethinks what constitutes landscape. Her artistic practice and research move from the subterranean to the cosmic, from political borders to the elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Unraveling the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations, through large-scale sculptures, site-specific installations, film, and works on paper that are all materially and conceptually driven, Fernández seeks to reveal the inherent violence embedded in how we imagine and define place. Fernández's work poetically challenges ideas of power, visibility, and erasure in connection to site and landscape.
Robert Smithson expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over 50 years, Smithson’s writings, artworks, and ideas have influenced generations of artists and thinkers to consider site-specificity and land in relation to conceptual and minimalist practices. From his landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites, writings, proposals, collages, drawings, and radical rethinking of landscape, Smithson’s ideas remain relevant for our times. By investigating the conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge, Smithson raised essential questions about our place in the world.
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