On Love
Solo exhibition, Gallery Bienvenu Steinberg & C , 2024, New York
On Love, Fernanda
Fragateiro’s third exhibition with the gallery. Characterized by her interest in
rethinking and probing modernist practices, Fragateiro's work involves an
archaeological approach to the social, political, and aesthetichistory of
modernism. Through continuous research with material from archives,
documents,and objects, she establishes a nuanced political feminist position by
uncovering the architectural gestures of mostly absent female subjects. In the
annals of history, dormant things lie—unsaid, unfinished, discarded. Fragateiro
reexamines and renders them into three-dimensional form. On Love is a
constellation of conversations with women artists, architects, and
designers—from Elaine Lustig Cohen and Otti Berger, to Lina Bo Bardi and Alison
Smithson who, by becoming the caretakers for history, have been oftentimes
occluded from it.
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