Jennifer Fernandez

I have a deep interest in relationality - the idea of how beings are connected, how we form, shape, and respond to one another. My artistic practice is rooted in the affective open-ended network created between myself, the natural and industrialized materials I collaborate with, and the viewer. I work in concert with wood, ceramic stoneware, copper, recycled acrylic, and wool. The result is a body of work formed by an overarching interest in the relationship between human and other-than-human worlds.

Material selection is guided by a desire for elements to serve both the conceptual framework and to elicit an emotional response both in myself and the viewer. This process is deeply relational. In curating a space for the material and form to take shape, I cultivate a practice of intuitive listening. This interspecies entanglement, informed by research, has produced a generative space which allows me to create conceptual works that critically investigate a range of environmental issues.