Andrés Fernández (Madrid, 1973) is an artist who is part of Debajo del Sombrero, a platform that works with and represents artists with intellectual disabilities. His work has been exhibited at Mad Musée (Belgium), El Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, MACBA, Caixaforum, La Factoría, Centro Cibeles, and at F2 and Aina Nowack galleries, among others.
The work of Andrés Fernández forms a vast cartographic system of maps and plans, as well as texts, lists, and various enumerations. It's an entire body of work methodically articulated, in which he unfolds a compendium of beliefs and experiences symbolically expressed.
Among the considerable number of maps created by Andrés so far, the maps of El Canal del Parto. These maps describe the places the canal travels to birth, within a framework difficult to decipher due to the extremely tight superposition of elements and levels of seemingly distinct nature and origin. It gives the impression that multiple layers or dimensions have been compressed into a single plane, in an attempt to unite a multifaceted belief that encompasses coming from "the dark depths," from "Paris," from "Sumatra," from the "world of video games," or from the Universe entering Earth via the "Solar System," passing through 58 cities worldwide to reach Madrid, and finally by metro line to the Ríos Rosas maternity hospital, where he himself was born.
Conceived as a Virtual reality curation of the work by Andrés Fernández, Birth Canal a dialogue unfolds between Kinerama, the Debajo del Sombrero Association, and Andrés himself, taking as its starting point his long-held desire to conquer space.
