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Teresita Fernández

Liquid Horizon

Seoul

Aug 27–Oct 25, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

213 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu

Seoul, 04349

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Liquid Horizon, an exhibition of new work by New York–based artist Teresita Fernández, on view at Lehmann Maupin Seoul from August 27–October 25, 2025. Featuring a glazed ceramic wall installation and luminous sculptural panels that evoke watery realms, the exhibition extends Fernández’s ongoing interest in subterranean landscapes—soil horizons formed by geological and human-formed layers. Here, her inquiry moves into the stratified depths of the ocean, revealing layers of shifting density and transparency that expand the visual and conceptual language beyond the terrestrial.

Liquid Horizon marks Fernández’s debut at the gallery’s Seoul location and her first exhibition in the city in over a decade. The exhibition proliferates the dialogue with her most recent exhibitions at Lehmann Maupin: Soil Horizon in New York and Astral Sea in London. It is preceded by two recent museum exhibitions at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas and at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which both investigate the vibratory, interdependent nature of terrestrial and cosmic matter—treating landscape not simply as physical terrain but as a charged space of psychological, political, and cultural resonance. Concurrently, Fernández’s work is on view in the exhibition Shifting Landscapes at the Whitney Museum in New York.

For over three decades, Fernández has examined the complexities and paradoxes within landscape—the visible and hidden, celestial and earthly, fierce and alluring, material and ephemeral, ancient and contemporary. Her material intellect is firmly embedded within the sculptural investigations that question how place, land, and landscape are defined. Her work reveals landscapes as embodied sites—at once vast and intimate, private and collective—where poetics and politics intertwine, exposing the layered histories, identities, and cosmologies contained within their strata.

Installation view of Teresita Fernández at Lehmann Maupin Seoul
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Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 7, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 4, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 2, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 8, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 9, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Liquid Horizon 4, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 3, 2025

Installation view of Teresita Fernández at Lehmann Maupin Seoul
Installation Views: 1 of 3
Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Liquid Horizon 1, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Liquid Horizon 3, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 1, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 6, 2025

Wall sculpture by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

Nocturnal(Milk Sky) 5, 2025

Ceramic wall work by Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

White Phosphorous/Cobalt, 2025

Portrait of Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández's work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations. Her luminous, sculptural works poetically challenge ideas about land and landscape by amplifying the powerful, emotional connection in how we imagine place, and, by extension, one another. Fernández exposes the complex narratives that stem from distorted, colonial histories, elaborating on these themes in subtle ways that insist on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense. Imagining the landscape with reciprocal sentience, Fernández has said “You look at the landscape, but the landscape also looks back at you."

Fernández is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Creative Capital Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award; an American Academy of Rome Fellowship (AFAAR); and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant in Visual Arts, among others. Her works have been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Menil Collection; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; SITE Santa Fe; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art; MASS MoCA; and Castello di Rivoli, Italy, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

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