Relationships shape the ways we inhabit the world.

Brenda R. Fernández (Mexico City, 1973) is a Mexican-Spanish visual artist whose practice is grounded in long-term artistic research. She investigates how relationships between people, materials, places, memory, and time become visible through artistic processes. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, textile structures, and collaborative creative processes, her work explores the capacity of matter to preserve experience and give material form to human relationships.

The Persistence of Matter is the long-term research framework that brings these questions together. It encompasses multiple research projects, each approaching the same investigation from a different perspective while developing its own material language. Painting, structure, architecture, textiles, and space are understood as interconnected fields through which relationships can be perceived, transformed, and experienced.

Projects developed within The Persistence of Matter have been exhibited internationally at the Modern Art Museum (MAMAG), Austria (2019); the Embassy of Mexico in Japan, Tokyo (2023); Museo Luigi Bellini, Florence (2023); the Museum Europeu d'Art Modern (MEAM), Barcelona (2024); Chelsea Old Town Hall, London (2024); Museo del Mar, Santa Pola (2024); Museo Navale di Imperia, Italy (2024); and other museums and cultural institutions across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Mexico.

The research has also been featured in international publications, including About Art Magazine, published by the Modern Art Museum (MAMAG), Austria (2022). It has generated critical essays and curatorial texts by Pedro A. Cruz Sánchez, art critic, theorist, and Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Murcia; Antonio Sánchez, Director of 1819 Art Gallery (Spain); and Dr. Minette Erdman, museologist, curator, and Coordinator of the Diploma in Museography, Curatorship and Museology at the Faculty of Arts and Design, UNAM.

She participated in the Radio28 Creative Studios Residency Program, Mexico City (2023), and was subsequently selected for the Zaratan AIR Residency, Lisbon (2026); the OOTC Residency, Cairo; Manang, Nepal; and the AADK Spain – Simpoiesis Residency Programme at Centro Negra, Murcia (2027), where she continues expanding The Persistence of Matter through site-responsive artistic research.