Lavanderia #2
Artist:
Christina Fernandez
(American, born 1965)
Date: 2002-2003 (printed 2020)
Dimensions:
print: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
framed: 33 × 43 × 2 in. (83.8 × 109.2 × 5.1 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with the Brown Foundation Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund
Object number: 2020.9
Portfolio: From the series Lavanderia (2002-2003)
Signed: With signature card and signed label on back of mounted print.
Published References
Eva Recinos, "Christina Fernandez: Camera Lens as Window," in Fabrik, Issue 39 (Spring 2018), p.25.
Label Text
Employing a long exposure during evening hours, Christina Fernandez captures storefront windows and illuminated interiors with great detail. The Lavanderia series focuses on laundromat facades in her East Los Angeles neighborhood, exploring issues of labor, visibility, and identity. Here, Fernandez centers on the world of working class Latinx communities by photographing a space of everyday domestic chores. A few anonymous, blurry figures are seen tending to their laundry—their presence mirrored by the ghost-like graffiti on the windows. (Lana Meador, 2021)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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