Ruth Rosengarten ///
The art of relating: Fernanda Fragateiro in context

or Fernanda Fragateiro, there is something ecological – and hence political – about the act of subtraction. To add to the surfeit of things and places that choke our public and private spaces would be to ignore a crisis whose very definition is, one might argue, at least in part ideological. And to remove something from an already glutted physical environment is, by contrast, to wreak gentle havoc in a world that functions according to the logic of accumulation. Fragateiro favours such subtraction, whether in radical acts of extraction, or in the recovery of what is only mutely present, submerged under accrued layers of construction, earth or detritus.