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In the vast landscape of memory, where the boundaries between reality and myth blur, Manuel Hernandez’s (b. Mexico City, 1998) paintings offer a poignant reflection on the stories that linger just beyond language. Drawing from oral histories and Indigenous visual traditions, such as the fresco-like wall paintings of Teotihuacan, Hernandez—now based in New York City—transforms both fragmented recollections of his ancestral pueblo of Sultepequito, Mexico, and multihour interviews with his portrait sitters into modern, folkloric narrative panels and dry-brushed murals. In his new solo exhibition, Eternal Voices, Raíces Resistentes at MAMA Projects, each brushstroke serves as an act of preservation, sustaining histories that are both personal and collective, tangible and elusive, while exploring the delicate boundary between testimony and imagination.
As Hernandez states, “My art is not political, it is politicized.” Eternal Voices emerges from the artist’s...More
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In the vast landscape of memory, where the boundaries between reality and myth blur, Manuel Hernandez’s (b. Mexico City, 1998) paintings offer a poignant reflection on the stories that linger just beyond language. Drawing from oral histories and Indigenous visual traditions, such as the fresco-like wall paintings of Teotihuacan, Hernandez—now based in New York City—transforms both fragmented recollections of his ancestral pueblo of Sultepequito, Mexico, and multihour interviews with his portrait sitters into modern, folkloric narrative panels and dry-brushed murals. In his new solo exhibition, Eternal Voices, Raíces Resistentes at MAMA Projects, each brushstroke serves as an act of preservation, sustaining histories that are both personal and collective, tangible and elusive, while exploring the delicate boundary between testimony and imagination.
As Hernandez states, “My art is not political, it is politicized.” Eternal Voices emerges from the artist’s...More
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