Teresita Fernandez
Night Writing (Equator), 2011
Hand-dyed and formed paper pulp with UV ink print and mirror
Triptych 16.5 x 65.5 in (each panel)
Teresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking.
Night Writing evokes the dramatic and universal experience of looking at the night sky. Each of these unique hand-made pulp prints is perforated with braille-like patterns that recall constellations. The title of the series, Night Writing, is a reference to “Ecriture Nocturne,” a secret code written in the early 19th century to enable Napoleon’s soldiers to communicate at night, silently and without light.
Names of people, places and things, from star crossed lovers, to famous gems, to coordinates marked by latitude lines, are incorporated into the works as words translated into braille and made into an abstracted composition of points that are superimposed on sumptuous large-scale, printed images of the night sky. The works become a statement on the ephemeral quality of language and the attempt to grasp the content hidden within the invisible text. Fernandez’s works explore this subtle space between blindness, vision, and the tactile.
Lehmann Maupin
