With its presentation of Fernandes’s work, the Barnes joins a number of institutions and artists worldwide that are combining the mediums of dance and sculpture to question how people interact with museums and visual art. The show’s curators, James Claiborne and Nancy Ireson, hoped that Fernandes’s dance piece, made in response to Edmondson’s stone carvings, would “encourage new ways of seeing,” Ireson said. The work, “Returning to Before,” will be shown as an ongoing live performance in the museum starting Friday.
