Casey Kaplan
Outside of Time: Patricia Fernández Carcedo in Conversation with Vanessa Kauffman
August 12, 2016
In the fall of 2015, the Spanish-born, Los Angeles–based artist Patricia Fernández Carcedo was in residence at Headlands for a little over five weeks. Fernández Carcedo’s practice is infused with itinerancy. Sometimes painted, sometimes carved, and sometimes stitched, the objects that she creates and culls together are often as illustrative of the labor of their making as they are of the labor of a memory that is trying to hold onto a place, or perhaps trying to create a place that never was. Her installations—most often concerned with the displacement of people, culture, and ideas during the time of Franco’s dictatorship in Spain—reframe geography as a collection of parts that are human-made (and often hand-held), in which use and sentiment are leveled, and authority and artifice are meticulously intertwined. Below, Fernández Carcedo and Vanessa Kauffman discuss the influence of her residencies at Headlands and other programs on her interdisciplinary practice.