Box (a proposition for ten years)
Patricia Fernández and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) at Commonwealth and Council.
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is participating in an exhibition, Box (a proposition for ten years), with artist Patricia Fernández at Commonwealth and Council. In conjunction, Fernández Archive is available on LACA's database.
At Commonwealth and Council, viewers are invited to engage with Fernández's collection and LACA's role in developing its archive. The exhibition contains three banners that serve as a Finding Aid or map, collating information on the archive’s contents and system of organization. Additionally, two individual vinyl records will be playing interviews with Patricia Fernández and Young Chung, conducted by LACA’s Director, Hailey Loman. One record covers the project’s origins and ongoing relationship with Commonwealth and Council. The other recording memorializes the collection through Fernández’s own reflections on corresponding and object sharing with Chung. The record plays within a hand-carved wooden record player, marked with x-motifs shared across Fernández’s and her grandfather’s woodcarving practices.
The collection, it’s ephemera, and its archive, display the nuances of interpersonal relationships. This includes promises between the artist and Commonwealth and Council, as well as, terms that bind the archivist and the artist. We invite you to consider where the act of archiving overlaps with the authorship of artwork. How does someone archive a relationship—with a space, with a friend—through an exchange of objects, unanswered letters, and things left unspoken?
Schedule:
January 7-February 6th
Box (a proposition for ten years) at Commonwealth and Council
January 17th, Sunday at 1 PM
An Artist Archive
Online conversation with Doris Chon, Hailey Loman, Maite Muñoz, and Patricia Fernández
Past
Launching December 11th online
Box (a proposition for ten years) Archive viewable HERE.
