Untitled (frames), 2020

Produced as a commission for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fernández pairs a selection of Goya’s etchings from the Caprichos series with reproductions of her grandfather’s carvings and framing devices. The exhibition Not I: Throwing Voices addresses questions of authorship and objecthood. Who speaks for whom? How is the voice split into and between many bodies? How is gesture passed down? A grouping of sculptural forms—a podium, a book, and a black board—signifiers of a classroom setting, are reconstructed by the artist and decorated with her grandfather’s stylistic carving style to speak of intergenerational relationships and the transmission of knowledge. Motifs from Goya’s etchings are translated into carvings and inserted alongside some of her grandfather’s unfinished fragments, remnants of past work. Through the copy of a mark and a collapsing of time, Fernández proposes a personal canon of Spanish art history.