Smithson placing mirrors

Thinking with Robert Smithson, a Curator Talk at SITE SANTA FE

Join us at SITE SANTA FE next Thursday May 30 for a presentation by our Executive Director Lisa Le Feuvre on the work of Robert Smithson, considering how Smithson's artworks and ideas resonate with the present moment. ⁠

Learn more about the event and get tickets on the SITE SANTA FE website.

Thinking with Robert Smithson
Curator Talk with Lisa Le Feuvre ⁠
Thursday May 30 at 5:30pm⁠
SITE SANTA FE Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium. ⁠

This July, SITE SANTA FE, in collaboration with artist Teresita Fernández and Holt/Smithson Foundation, presents the exhibition Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson.
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Artist-led and conceptually driven, Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson is a subjective, intergenerational conversation between two practices, pulling the past into the present. The exhibition critically considers entanglements between place, site, seeing, and deep time through the artists’ mutual engagement with material intelligence, geological agency, and cartographic fictions. Co-curated by Fernández and Lisa Le Feuvre, the exhibition opens July 5, 2024, and will remain on view through October 28, 2024. ⁠
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Robert Smithson making the First Yucatan Mirror Displacement in Mexico, 1969⁠
Photograph: Nancy Holt⁠
©Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

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