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(b. United States, 1968) The architectural installations of Teresita Fernandez often are intended to confuse the senses, and work toward a redefinition of the relationship between the viewer's body and environment. She sculptures space by miscontextualizing ordinary scenes, artifacts and symbols, and in the process discovers a new order and a new logic for them. She begins her installations with a referential image, such as an empty swimming pool, to evoke a sensation of the familiar. She uses light, color, and sometimes sound to illusionistically reconfigure a space as well as to confound its perception. Informed by feminist theories on the gender encoding of landscape and architecture, the artist's monumental installations make possible a work of assumed knowledge regarding the placement of the human body in space. Her works are not necessarily site-specific, but rather site-sensitive. In An Environment 1996, at the Berkeley Art Museum in California, the result of the inst
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