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Of Bodies and Borders
In 2018, Ana Teresa Fernández developed her third solo exhibition, Of Bodies and Borders. It is composed of different types of mediums, consisting of an eight-minute performance video title, Drawn below, a series of oil paintings that depicted some scenes from the video, drawings titled Gauging Gravity, and a cement installation. The video, which was later transformed into drawings and paintings, depicted Fernández in the ocean, wearing her iconic little black dress and heels, wrapped in a bedsheet trying to make herself float. Fernández explained that the bed sheet served as a metaphor “of possible rebirth as someone embarks on this journey or the other outcome,..which is the sea taking individuals’ lives and having them drown”. Of Bodies and Borders is symbolic of migrants that have crossed the Mediterranean Sea, which is considered, “one of the deadliest borders in the world”. According to the associate curator at the Perez Art Museum Miami, Maria Elena Ortiz argues that the “exhibition deals with the issue of immigration and human loss, which resonates with the current political debates in the U.S.”. Besides representing migrant hardships it also is a representation of feminist issues. The little black dress and heels reflect the tribulations that women have to endure for equality.