Anna Berenice Garner

Lateral presents the solo show Topographies and other fictions | Topografías y otras ficciones by Anna Berenice Garner.

Each image presents a space modified by layers of matter intervened by the body or suggestions of its presence. Subtle hints of movement in empty settings, of a body that transforms the landscape and is a landscape at the same time. In these environments of reinvention, space is shaped and rethought through a negotiation between body and contour, between layers of paper that wrinkle, break, fold, tear and, in some cases, disappear.

(Fragment of the room text by Janila Castañeda)

Anna Berenice Garner, (New York, 1982), grew up in San Diego and currently lives in Mexico City. Garner's work harmonizes sculpture, photography and video, to set up fictional spaces and performance for the camera. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY (2022); ltd Los Angeles, CA (2019); and at Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ (2015). Her pieces have been included in thematic exhibitions at Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2021), Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium (2019); The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2019); and the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2016). In 2015, Anna was awarded the Phoenix Art Museum's Contemporary Forum Artist Fellowship. Anna's work has been supported through residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2016), and Art OMI (2019). Her works are part of the collections of the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA), Federal Reserve Board (Washington DC), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX), and National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC).

— Lateral