Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson (PRE-ORDER)

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Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at SITE SANTA FE, Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson is structured as a subjective, intergenerational conversation between two artists whose conceptual, research-based practices take form through experimental sculptural approaches to matter and material. Initiated by Fernández’s long-term engagement with challenging socially constructed ideas about place and landscape and her immersive research on Robert Smithson’s art and ideas, the book explores convergences and divergences in the artists’ thinking and making around sites, seeing, deep time, the cosmos, the subterranean, material intelligence, geological agency, and cartographic fictions.

The book’s structure tracks closely with the organization of the exhibition, as rooms centered on resonant themes in the artists’ work become chapters in the publication for the reader to navigate at a different pace. In addition to a texts by Fernández and Smithson, the book includes essays by Lisa Le Feuvre, Carla Acevedo-Yates, and Lucy R. Lippard, along with an excerpt of a republished text by Nadiah Rivera Fellah and a conversation between Fernandez and fellow artist Cecilia Vicuña.

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Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at SITE SANTA FE, Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson is structured as a subjective, intergenerational conversation between two artists whose conceptual, research-based practices take form through experimental sculptural approaches to matter and material. Initiated by Fernández’s long-term engagement with challenging socially constructed ideas about place and landscape and her immersive research on Robert Smithson’s art and ideas, the book explores convergences and divergences in the artists’ thinking and making around sites, seeing, deep time, the cosmos, the subterranean, material intelligence, geological agency, and cartographic fictions.

The book’s structure tracks closely with the organization of the exhibition, as rooms centered on resonant themes in the artists’ work become chapters in the publication for the reader to navigate at a different pace. In addition to a texts by Fernández and Smithson, the book includes essays by Lisa Le Feuvre, Carla Acevedo-Yates, and Lucy R. Lippard, along with an excerpt of a republished text by Nadiah Rivera Fellah and a conversation between Fernandez and fellow artist Cecilia Vicuña.

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  • Artwork by Teresita Fernández and Robert Smithson
    Texts by Teresita Fernández, Robert Smithson, Lisa Le Feuvre, Carla Acevedo-Yates, Nadiah Rivera Fellah, and Lucy R. Lippard
    Conversation with Teresita Fernández and Cecilia Vicuña

    Hardcover
    9 x 12.5 inches
    384 pages / 219 images

    Trade ISBN: 9798890181039
    Signed ISBN: 9798890181046

  • 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 sculpture, site-specific installation, 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 (1938–1973) expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over 50 years, his 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, he raised essential questions about our place in the world.