The exhibition told the story of a creator who, through her practice, reflects and challenges perceptions of the natural world and the U.S. social order, and asked viewers to contemplate their roles with those spaces. The retrospective introduced visitors to the artist’s large-scale sculptures, installations, and mixed media works that merge formal and conceptual aspects of her practice through the use of natural materials and the historic genre of landscape to reinterpret relationships between nature, history, and identity.

Teresita Fernández: Elemental spanned the mid-1990s to the present, offering a comprehensive view of Fernández’s career to date. Featured works included Untitled (1997), a mirrored floor sculpture that references voyeurism but encourages self-reflection from those within the structure, and Fire (2005), which uses thousands of hand-dyed silk threads to construct flame patterns that become animated by light and air as viewers move around the sculpture.