Using etching, photography and graphics, Mar Hernández tries to identify and mark the subtle line between collapse and reconstruction, lost and salvaged identity, nullification and preservation. Her poetry gives back value to those locations that witnessed historic and human transformations and shows, through the drawn line, the indelible traces of the past and their heritage.
Rewind
On show at the White Noise Gallery in Rome, Hernández uses etching, photography and graphics to identify the subtle line between collapse and reconstruction.
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- 13 June 2017
- Rome
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