The book will be a robust publication featuring extensive photographic documentation, sketches, and scores as well as an insightful collection of texts.

Re/Form is an ambitious new monograph by artist Brendan Fernandes. Re/Form chronicles Fernandes recent exhibitions, “Contract and Release” at The Isamu Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY and, “The Master and Form” at The Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL and the 2019 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY. Both projects explored notions of discipline, mastery, and architecture to disrupt and recombine ballet and modern dance traditions. Together, they represented a decisive moment in Fernande’s practice that is archived and celebrated in this publication. Fernandes’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement in order to create spaces of solidarity.

About the Artist

Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts who is currently based in Chicago. His exhibitions and performances have been featured at the 2019 Whitney Biennial (New York); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Getty Museum (Los Angeles); the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal); among a great many others. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University and represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. Recent and upcoming projects include performances and solo presentations at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto); the Museo De Arte São Paulo (São Paulo); and Neon (Athens).