Brendan Fernandes
In Two (In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia), 2024
hand screenprint on cotton muslin, unique
241 x 44 in (each panel)
612.1 x 111.8 cm
612.1 x 111.8 cm
Commissioned by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2024, Fernandes collaborated with the Fabric Workshop and Museum’s Studio team in Philadelphia to create an installation of curtains and soft sculptures, designed...
Commissioned by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2024, Fernandes collaborated with the Fabric Workshop and Museum’s Studio team in Philadelphia to create an installation of curtains and soft sculptures, designed to accompany an exhibition of the artist Scott Burton’s work (1939–1989). In a series of duets titled In Two, Fernandes has written dance scores that take Burton’s furniture sculptures as a point of departure to explore the duality of display and concealment in gay cruising culture—ideas that Burton had pursued throughout his career. Fernandes integrates specific gestures—“flip the wrist,” “clasp arm to the breast”—directly from Burton’s choreographic notes, and the patterning on the curtains mirror the artist's fingerprints on his iPhone screen from swiping on Grindr.