Mar Hernández, Ruina Habitada II, mixed media on photography, 100x70 cm, 2017 (dettaglio)
Mar Hernández, Maquinista del Mediterraneo, 100x80, etching on digital photography, 2016
Her research starts from pictures of abandoned places, seen as containers of a suspended time. On them the artist draws uninhabited interiors, like a family portrait where all the characters have been erased. In “Rewind” the absence of any kind of human beings leaves us in a thick silence full of pathos, where the objects are the only witnesses of the people who have been there. Using the lead the artist projects in the dead rooms, on the old walls and the destroyed floors the shadows of what has been, creating interiors that appear physically empty but are emotionally full. Hernández digs through the ruins of time to give places back their voices. The result, in absence of any kind of life form, remains inevitably silent.
15 June – 31 July 2017
Mar Hernández. Rewind
curated by Eleonora Aloise and Carlo Maria Lolli Ghetti
White Noise Gallery
via dei Marsi 20/22, Rome