Photo: Seijii Robinson, courtesy of DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
March 20 – August 3, 2025
Windows, doors, passages, architectural lines structure the image — and the image, in turn, becomes a threshold. In Multiple Exposures, Christina Fernandez transforms photography into a site of crossing: between past and present, visibility and erasure, the personal and the political. Her photographs are not just records; they are portals, layered compositions in which openings become metaphors for migration, self-invention, and the complex histories of Latinx life in the United States. Whether capturing the fogged window of a laundromat, the view from an artist’s home, or a factory facade, Fernandez invites us to peer through surfaces into spaces shaped by labour, longing, and resistance.
The works in the exhibition spanned over three decades, bringing together Fernandez’s most significant series and offering a comprehensive look at her nuanced approach to visual storytelling. Its title, Multiple Exposures, operates on several levels. Literally, it references the photographic technique of superimposing images, a method Fernandez employs to powerful effect to radically redefine the history of portraiture. Figuratively, it speaks to the entwined narratives and histories that she uncovers.
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