Thelma and Juanita (Pt. Fermin), from the series View from here, 2017 Archival pigment print diptych 15 x 21 ½ inches
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Christina Fernandez | Prospect
16/09/2017 - 22/11/2017
LUISOTTI
2525 Michigan Ave., a2
90404 Santa Monica
galleryluisotti.com
Gallery Luisotti is delighted to present Christina Fernandez: Prospect. It is the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the programming of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The exhibition features two new bodies of work, View from here and reflect/project(ion). She has worked on these two series since 2016. Her new work continues several threads present in her earlier series, with a renewed formal clarity. Ideas regarding place, history, memory and legacy are strong currents within the exhibition.
View from here is an ongoing series of ten photographs, depicting various windows and their views onto the exterior surroundings of a particular structure. Fernandez has placed the window and its immediate interior surroundings in focus while the exterior landscape in blurred as an effect of the shallow depth of field. She disrupts the established convention of the window being used to look out at something by emphasizing the interior of a space and its particular history. In a way it heightens the viewer’s awareness that someone else has stood there previously.
The accompanying series reflect/project(ion) is a group of collaborative photographic portraits printed on stretched canvas. Fernandez asked former students to make a photograph of their camera and equipment, which she then projects onto their bodies as she makes a photograph of her own. Placed within doors and next to windows, the staging of the photographs opens layers of meaning. The portraits are contemplative, and suggest opportunity through the presence of windows, as well as the passage of time and movement through life’s stages via the appearance of doorways.
16/09/2017 - 22/11/2017
LUISOTTI
2525 Michigan Ave., a2
90404 Santa Monica
galleryluisotti.com
Gallery Luisotti is delighted to present Christina Fernandez: Prospect. It is the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the programming of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The exhibition features two new bodies of work, View from here and reflect/project(ion). She has worked on these two series since 2016. Her new work continues several threads present in her earlier series, with a renewed formal clarity. Ideas regarding place, history, memory and legacy are strong currents within the exhibition.
View from here is an ongoing series of ten photographs, depicting various windows and their views onto the exterior surroundings of a particular structure. Fernandez has placed the window and its immediate interior surroundings in focus while the exterior landscape in blurred as an effect of the shallow depth of field. She disrupts the established convention of the window being used to look out at something by emphasizing the interior of a space and its particular history. In a way it heightens the viewer’s awareness that someone else has stood there previously.
The accompanying series reflect/project(ion) is a group of collaborative photographic portraits printed on stretched canvas. Fernandez asked former students to make a photograph of their camera and equipment, which she then projects onto their bodies as she makes a photograph of her own. Placed within doors and next to windows, the staging of the photographs opens layers of meaning. The portraits are contemplative, and suggest opportunity through the presence of windows, as well as the passage of time and movement through life’s stages via the appearance of doorways.