LONGFORM: Carla Fernandez & Pedro Reyes on Collaboration and Preservation
Friedman Benda
09.12.2020
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“[Has] to be the coolest house in Mexico.” —Stephen Burks, on the home of Carla Fernandez & Pedro Reyes
The Design in Dialogue series of Zoom conversations produced by Friedman Benda is proving to be one of the best series to come out of our time in quarantine. Inaugurated on April 1, 2020 and now consisting of over 50 episodes – all recorded remotely during quarantine – Design in Dialogue is a series of online interviews hosted alternately by curator and historian Glenn Adamson and designer Stephen Burks. Conversations are held on Zoom for one hour, beginning at 11AM EDT typically on Wednesdays and Fridays, and include a participatory Q&A. The next one will be on September 16 with Hella Jongerius, interviewed by Glenn Adamson.
In this conversation – episode #58 of Design in Dialogue – designer Stephen Burks interviews the dynamic Mexico City-based couple of fashion designer Carla Fernandez and artist Pedro Reyes. In a lively, wide-ranging discussion, the pair discuss their home – that Burks calls “what has to be the coolest house in Mexico” – their inspirations, and their work with indigenous people in sustainable systems.
From Friedman Benda:
Carla Fernandez & Pedro Reyes are a creative couple living and working in Mexico City. As a fashion designer collaborating with communities and a sculptor working with social interaction, they share a fierce passion for the preservation of indigenous, modernist, and contemporary Mexican culture. Speaking from their celebrated self-designed home-as-laboratory, they presented their individual practices and shared projects.
