Camille Holvoet’s work playing on the flower installation
Laron Bickerstaff’s work playing on the house installation
Ada Chow’s work playing on the cloud installation
Ana Teresa Fernández
What is your relationship to the land, to madre TIERRA?
“Do you think the earth loves you back? Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.”
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“I try to work through the equations of reciprocity and responsibility, the whys and wherefores of building sustainable relationships with ecosystems. The ultimate reciprocity, loving and being loved in return.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer – Mother , Scientist, decorated Professor & member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
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“Nahuatl. Aquí el orgullo de sernos el color que somos del color de la tierra.
Ñahñu. Aquí la dignidad que es vernos ser vistos siendo el color que somos del color de la tierra.
O’odham. Aquí la voz que nos nace y alienta.
Pame. Aquí ya no el silencio.
Popoluca. Aquí el grito…
Este movimiento, el del color de la tierra, es tuyo y porque es tuyo es nuestro.
Ahora, y es lo que ellos temen, no hay ya él “ustedes” y el “nosotros” porque todos somos ya el color que somos de la tierra.” Subcomandante Marcos
“Nahuatl. Here the pride that we are the colors of the earth.
Ñahñu. Here the dignity that is to be seen existing as the same colors of the earth.
O’odham. Here, the voice that is birthed and taken care of.
Pame. Here, there is no silence.
Popoluca. Here, the scream.
This movement, the one the colors of the earth, is yours. And because it is yours it is also ours. Now, that which they fear, is that there is no “THEM” and “US” because we are ALL the colors of the earth.” Subcomandante Marcos
This is for all people around the world being colonized, fighting for a place on this earth.
Finding a place where that sacred bond may exist with the land and water, with each other where we may be interconnected. #Palestine #Haiti #Sudan #Ukraine #freepalestine
What is your relationship to the land, to madre TIERRA?
“Do you think the earth loves you back? Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.”
…
“I try to work through the equations of reciprocity and responsibility, the whys and wherefores of building sustainable relationships with ecosystems. The ultimate reciprocity, loving and being loved in return.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer – Mother , Scientist, decorated Professor & member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
…
“Nahuatl. Aquí el orgullo de sernos el color que somos del color de la tierra.
Ñahñu. Aquí la dignidad que es vernos ser vistos siendo el color que somos del color de la tierra.
O’odham. Aquí la voz que nos nace y alienta.
Pame. Aquí ya no el silencio.
Popoluca. Aquí el grito…
Este movimiento, el del color de la tierra, es tuyo y porque es tuyo es nuestro.
Ahora, y es lo que ellos temen, no hay ya él “ustedes” y el “nosotros” porque todos somos ya el color que somos de la tierra.” Subcomandante Marcos
“Nahuatl. Here the pride that we are the colors of the earth.
Ñahñu. Here the dignity that is to be seen existing as the same colors of the earth.
O’odham. Here, the voice that is birthed and taken care of.
Pame. Here, there is no silence.
Popoluca. Here, the scream.
This movement, the one the colors of the earth, is yours. And because it is yours it is also ours. Now, that which they fear, is that there is no “THEM” and “US” because we are ALL the colors of the earth.” Subcomandante Marcos
This is for all people around the world being colonized, fighting for a place on this earth.
Finding a place where that sacred bond may exist with the land and water, with each other where we may be interconnected. #Palestine #Haiti #Sudan #Ukraine #freepalestine
The Space Between Us | El Espacio Entre Nosotros
Performance at Tijuana | San Diego Border
2024- Lightbox – backlit pigment print
28”x 40”
New work for Critical Geographies @fotofest .
Space blankets, also known as emergency blankets, were first developed by NASA in 1964. The highly reflective insulators are often included in emergency kits.
It isolates your heat inside, not allowing any warmth or your breath to transmit across it.
Even though NASA invented them for outer space, they have now become the symbol of immigration; used at border detention camps between US / Mexico, as well across the Mediterranean by “illegal aliens”. The Space Between Us is part of the intervention created at the Mexico/US border using these space blankets addressing that families are still separated. Using Magritte’s The Lovers, in real contemporary space & time. During the performance I began to sweat inside the blanket unable to feel my lover’s breath, even though he was right in front of me. I would inhale & the blanket would press up against my face, suffocating & completely isolating me. My space was contained, no breath, no warmth shared between us.
During the Obama administration society became aware of the violence & hostility in the language being used & actively changes how we refer to migrants as Undocumented. Now, the president, in bullying & hateful fashion has brought back rhetoric that belittles & condemns individuals attempting to seek asylum. Calling everyone illegal aliens.
This is a country of natives & Undocumented Migrants that have poured in over 200 years ago, often forgetting who were here before us & forgetting to trace where they came from.
#fotofest #fotofest2024
#nomoreborders #usmexicoborder #thelovers #performance #art #performanceart #migration #thespacebetweenus
The Space Between Us | El Espacio Entre Nosotros
Performance at Tijuana | San Diego Border
2024- Lightbox – backlit pigment print
28”x 40”
New work for Critical Geographies @fotofest .
Space blankets, also known as emergency blankets, were first developed by NASA in 1964. The highly reflective insulators are often included in emergency kits.
It isolates your heat inside, not allowing any warmth or your breath to transmit across it.
Even though NASA invented them for outer space, they have now become the symbol of immigration; used at border detention camps between US / Mexico, as well across the Mediterranean by “illegal aliens”. The Space Between Us is part of the intervention created at the Mexico/US border using these space blankets addressing that families are still separated. Using Magritte’s The Lovers, in real contemporary space & time. During the performance I began to sweat inside the blanket unable to feel my lover’s breath, even though he was right in front of me. I would inhale & the blanket would press up against my face, suffocating & completely isolating me. My space was contained, no breath, no warmth shared between us.
During the Obama administration society became aware of the violence & hostility in the language being used & actively changes how we refer to migrants as Undocumented. Now, the president, in bullying & hateful fashion has brought back rhetoric that belittles & condemns individuals attempting to seek asylum. Calling everyone illegal aliens.
This is a country of natives & Undocumented Migrants that have poured in over 200 years ago, often forgetting who were here before us & forgetting to trace where they came from.
#fotofest #fotofest2024
#nomoreborders #usmexicoborder #thelovers #performance #art #performanceart #migration #thespacebetweenus
The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, “Critical Geography,” reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while investigating shifting and emergent spatial realms.
On view March 9–April 21, the exhibition is organized by Steven Evans, Executive Director of FotoFest.
Read the statement and artist list at fotofest.org/fotofest-biennial-2024 or the link in our bio.
See you @fotofest !⚡️⚡️⚡️
#FotoFest #fotofestbiennial #fotofestbiennial2024 #criticalgeography #borrandolafrontera #erasingtheborder #borders
The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, “Critical Geography,” reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while investigating shifting and emergent spatial realms.
On view March 9–April 21, the exhibition is organized by Steven Evans, Executive Director of FotoFest.
Read the statement and artist list at fotofest.org/fotofest-biennial-2024 or the link in our bio.
See you @fotofest !⚡️⚡️⚡️
#FotoFest #fotofestbiennial #fotofestbiennial2024 #criticalgeography #borrandolafrontera #erasingtheborder #borders
TIERRA. aquí estamos y un espejo somos …
Aquí la dignidad que es vernos, ser vistos, siendo el color que somos del color de la tierra- subcomandante Marcos , March 11th, 2001
Here we are, and the mirror we are. Here, the dignity to see us, to be seen as the ones of the color of the soil – subcomandante Marcos.
In September, @dirosaart had asked me to dream up of a community engagement project that ran parallel to my solo exhibition Listen Louder. I knew right away I wanted to create a constellation between the public art piece Circulation which is all about the land, the hand that touches it, and migration. Twyla and Hugo provided community partnerships: @bgcnv , @laluzcenter and the @mava_wines , and we worked with hundreds of community members across four schools, a family services center, and in the street in Downtown Napa to create skin tiles.
TIERRA stands six foot tall, spanning 25 feet, holding hundreds of tiles with community members’ skin tones on the facade. Gonzalo, Jose and Pascual, the DiRosa’s installers spent weeks assembling the piece with me in freezing cold outdoors .
TIERRA now stands outdoors in front of @macovineyards vineyard, the first of five Mexican American owned vineyards that will host it for 3 months at 3165 Silverado Road in Napa. TIERRA will then migrate to a different vineyard every three months, spending the year in migration across the Napa/Sonoma region.
The people that work the land of these fields are often Spanish speakers.
We ask and encourage wineries and wine aficionados to introduce the word “Tierra” instead of saying “terroir” as a way to sound fancy in the wine world.
Thank you @twyla.ruby for your commitment to this public artwork and the very layered process. You showed up every single time , to ALL the events we programmed.
Thanks to the many hands that have their skin on this artwork.
Thank you to Dennis for not giving up on me everytime I ask for more changes, bigger, better, no-not there yet, one more try- and you not hating me after the process.
Fabricated by: @prioritygraphics
TIERRA , aqui estas, eres el espejo de la comunidad.
Tierra here you are, the mirror to the community. #tierra
TIERRA. aquí estamos y un espejo somos …
Aquí la dignidad que es vernos, ser vistos, siendo el color que somos del color de la tierra- subcomandante Marcos , March 11th, 2001
Here we are, and the mirror we are. Here, the dignity to see us, to be seen as the ones of the color of the soil – subcomandante Marcos.
In September, @dirosaart had asked me to dream up of a community engagement project that ran parallel to my solo exhibition Listen Louder. I knew right away I wanted to create a constellation between the public art piece Circulation which is all about the land, the hand that touches it, and migration. Twyla and Hugo provided community partnerships: @bgcnv , @laluzcenter and the @mava_wines , and we worked with hundreds of community members across four schools, a family services center, and in the street in Downtown Napa to create skin tiles.
TIERRA stands six foot tall, spanning 25 feet, holding hundreds of tiles with community members’ skin tones on the facade. Gonzalo, Jose and Pascual, the DiRosa’s installers spent weeks assembling the piece with me in freezing cold outdoors .
TIERRA now stands outdoors in front of @macovineyards vineyard, the first of five Mexican American owned vineyards that will host it for 3 months at 3165 Silverado Road in Napa. TIERRA will then migrate to a different vineyard every three months, spending the year in migration across the Napa/Sonoma region.
The people that work the land of these fields are often Spanish speakers.
We ask and encourage wineries and wine aficionados to introduce the word “Tierra” instead of saying “terroir” as a way to sound fancy in the wine world.
Thank you @twyla.ruby for your commitment to this public artwork and the very layered process. You showed up every single time , to ALL the events we programmed.
Thanks to the many hands that have their skin on this artwork.
Thank you to Dennis for not giving up on me everytime I ask for more changes, bigger, better, no-not there yet, one more try- and you not hating me after the process.
Fabricated by: @prioritygraphics
TIERRA , aqui estas, eres el espejo de la comunidad.
Tierra here you are, the mirror to the community. #tierra
Stoked to be a part of this incredible exhibition!!!Repost from @monument_lab
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Coming this Spring: We are excited to announce Slow Motion, an indoor and outdoor exhibition curated by Patricia Eunji Kim (@triciaeunjikim) for Monument Lab at @groundsforsculpture, reimagines the material possibilities of public memory.
The exhibition will feature artists: Billy Dufala (@bdufala), @anateresafernandez , @colette_fu, Omar Tate (@coltrane215), and Sandy Williams IV (@the_sandy_can) who make their mark through unconventional materials and processes for sculpture. By experimenting with the life cycles of collective memory, the exhibition invites artists as well as visitors to play with the central question, “how can we remake our relationship with monuments?”
#monumentlab #publicart #art #monument #rethinkingmonuments
Stoked to be a part of this incredible exhibition!!!Repost from @monument_lab
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Coming this Spring: We are excited to announce Slow Motion, an indoor and outdoor exhibition curated by Patricia Eunji Kim (@triciaeunjikim) for Monument Lab at @groundsforsculpture, reimagines the material possibilities of public memory.
The exhibition will feature artists: Billy Dufala (@bdufala), @anateresafernandez , @colette_fu, Omar Tate (@coltrane215), and Sandy Williams IV (@the_sandy_can) who make their mark through unconventional materials and processes for sculpture. By experimenting with the life cycles of collective memory, the exhibition invites artists as well as visitors to play with the central question, “how can we remake our relationship with monuments?”
#monumentlab #publicart #art #monument #rethinkingmonuments
I need the sea because it teaches me.
I don’t know if I learn music or awareness,
if it’s a single wave or its vast existence…
The fact is that even while I sleep,
in some magnetic way I move in
the universality of the waves-
Pablo Neruda
The ocean is my teacher ; I learn about letting go, patience, failing and falling … as gracefully as one can… 2023 you kicked my ass in ways I had never been challenged before. However, as I do in surfing, I took deep breaths to stay calm under massive pressure, respected what was in front of me, and followed my intuition. I paddled hard and went for it. I had to make severe pivots and drastic changes as I followed my gut into the unknown… which meant doing what is not the “safe” “popular” or the “expected” thing to do especially for the art world.
But then again my gills are in many different pools at any given moment.
And serving communities is and has always been a North Star. This past year bridges were built and crossed between orgs and non profits. Lots of laughter and joy was shared. And the connection to the ocean and land was instilled. And ultimately my main goal is always about creating connections.
Because when people tell me “I don’t know what to do about what is happening in the world!” I ask “Do you know what is happening just outside your door in your own community? You need not go thousand miles away. There is so much work to be done outside our own door. Get informed, get involved.”
2023 has been spent prepping the building blocks for what is to come in 2024.
I’m grateful, fortunate and proud. 2023 was extremely hard, but we made it and kept it classy, joyous and earnest in the process! Thank you @davidperry11 for being my rock! ❤️❤️❤️
2024 BRING IT!!!! I cannot wait ! I am so ready !!!
NECESITO del mar porque me enseña:
no sé si aprendo música o conciencia:
no sé si es ola sola o ser profundo
o sólo ronca voz o deslumbrante
El hecho es que hasta cuando estoy dormido
de algún modo magnético circulo
en la universidad del oleaje.
Pablo Neruda
#ocean #2023 #anateresafernandez
I need the sea because it teaches me.
I don’t know if I learn music or awareness,
if it’s a single wave or its vast existence…
The fact is that even while I sleep,
in some magnetic way I move in
the universality of the waves-
Pablo Neruda
The ocean is my teacher ; I learn about letting go, patience, failing and falling … as gracefully as one can… 2023 you kicked my ass in ways I had never been challenged before. However, as I do in surfing, I took deep breaths to stay calm under massive pressure, respected what was in front of me, and followed my intuition. I paddled hard and went for it. I had to make severe pivots and drastic changes as I followed my gut into the unknown… which meant doing what is not the “safe” “popular” or the “expected” thing to do especially for the art world.
But then again my gills are in many different pools at any given moment.
And serving communities is and has always been a North Star. This past year bridges were built and crossed between orgs and non profits. Lots of laughter and joy was shared. And the connection to the ocean and land was instilled. And ultimately my main goal is always about creating connections.
Because when people tell me “I don’t know what to do about what is happening in the world!” I ask “Do you know what is happening just outside your door in your own community? You need not go thousand miles away. There is so much work to be done outside our own door. Get informed, get involved.”
2023 has been spent prepping the building blocks for what is to come in 2024.
I’m grateful, fortunate and proud. 2023 was extremely hard, but we made it and kept it classy, joyous and earnest in the process! Thank you @davidperry11 for being my rock! ❤️❤️❤️
2024 BRING IT!!!! I cannot wait ! I am so ready !!!
NECESITO del mar porque me enseña:
no sé si aprendo música o conciencia:
no sé si es ola sola o ser profundo
o sólo ronca voz o deslumbrante
El hecho es que hasta cuando estoy dormido
de algún modo magnético circulo
en la universidad del oleaje.
Pablo Neruda
#ocean #2023 #anateresafernandez
On the Horizon | Refractions
I’m originally from Tampico, a city surrounded by water in the Gulf of Mexico. Tampico in Huastec actually means “place of water dogs”.
When I frequented the beach I noticed that many people didn’t go in the water. I had no idea that 55% of the population worldwide does not know how to swim. 72% are low income, such as Tampico.
I had the immense privilege and advantage of learning how to swim at a very early age. It started a lifelong love and connection, with water, particularly to the ocean. I remember submerging myself and looking up at the playful colorful surface, watching the light and water dance to the cadence of the waves. I’d try to hold my breath for as long as I could to watch this color performance.
Refraction is the bending of light underwater due to a change in the speed of the light ray or wave. Since the light is passing from air (less dense) into water (more dense), the beam of light appears to bend at the surface of the water. Refractions occurs only at the border of light and water.
Knowing and understanding that more than half of the population can’t swim I asked Kate and Twyla if they would allow me to explore this world and create On the Horizon | Refractions where I could provide a visual of the border of light and water as an installation. An immersion of 6 feet, the sea level rise of the future.
Thank you @dirosaart for giving me a chance to explore this yearning of connecting a wider population to the sea.
Thank you Blake for 🎥
#sealevelrise #ocean #sea #onthehorizon #refractions #underwater
On the Horizon | Refractions
I’m originally from Tampico, a city surrounded by water in the Gulf of Mexico. Tampico in Huastec actually means “place of water dogs”.
When I frequented the beach I noticed that many people didn’t go in the water. I had no idea that 55% of the population worldwide does not know how to swim. 72% are low income, such as Tampico.
I had the immense privilege and advantage of learning how to swim at a very early age. It started a lifelong love and connection, with water, particularly to the ocean. I remember submerging myself and looking up at the playful colorful surface, watching the light and water dance to the cadence of the waves. I’d try to hold my breath for as long as I could to watch this color performance.
Refraction is the bending of light underwater due to a change in the speed of the light ray or wave. Since the light is passing from air (less dense) into water (more dense), the beam of light appears to bend at the surface of the water. Refractions occurs only at the border of light and water.
Knowing and understanding that more than half of the population can’t swim I asked Kate and Twyla if they would allow me to explore this world and create On the Horizon | Refractions where I could provide a visual of the border of light and water as an installation. An immersion of 6 feet, the sea level rise of the future.
Thank you @dirosaart for giving me a chance to explore this yearning of connecting a wider population to the sea.
Thank you Blake for 🎥
#sealevelrise #ocean #sea #onthehorizon #refractions #underwater
Repost from @art_borders_politics_
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Excited to work with one of my favorite artists, Ana Teresa Fernandez, on an expansion of her timely work “On The Horizon,” which focuses on climate change and water. We will together in 2024 to connect through bodies, rivers, and sea through the Sonoran Desert and across borders. Stay on the look out for more info as we engage in our first research trip in Feb/2024. Join us as we meet with communities in San Luis, MX and Cocopah Tribal Lands…and weave among the Río Colorado to the reserva de la biosfera alto golfo del rio colorado. @anateresafernandez To join us, DM. 💦🌵MOCA Tucson, #borderarte #art #publicart #sealevelrise #climatechange
Repost from @art_borders_politics_
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Excited to work with one of my favorite artists, Ana Teresa Fernandez, on an expansion of her timely work “On The Horizon,” which focuses on climate change and water. We will together in 2024 to connect through bodies, rivers, and sea through the Sonoran Desert and across borders. Stay on the look out for more info as we engage in our first research trip in Feb/2024. Join us as we meet with communities in San Luis, MX and Cocopah Tribal Lands…and weave among the Río Colorado to the reserva de la biosfera alto golfo del rio colorado. @anateresafernandez To join us, DM. 💦🌵MOCA Tucson, #borderarte #art #publicart #sealevelrise #climatechange