NADIA HERNÁNDEZ
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers)
24 April – 22 May 2021
STATION | SYDNEY
Nadia Hernández’s practice is informed by the political climate of her home country and her diasporic experience as a Venezuelan woman. Through textiles, paper constructions, paintings, music, installations, sculptures and murals she negotiates complex political narratives – intersecting the personal and the institutional.
Positioning herself both within and outside of the Venezuelan diaspora, Hernández makes art as a means to connect with a country once hers, now seized and overcome by tyranny. Hernández builds upon the stories, vignettes and hidden histories of her country to cast a gaze over a Venezuela that is at risk of being forgotten.
Con la punta de los dedos explores memory and time from a non-linear perspective. The works remix time and culture, capturing current events taking place in Venezuela and intertwining them with cotidianidad (everydayness) as experienced by the artist and her family in diaspora. Poetry is derived from the Hernández’s mum’s recipes and the internal filing system of memories of her childhood home.
The title, which translates to ‘with the tips of your fingers’, makes reference to instructions from a family recipe that has been passed onto the artist by her mother.
“Aplanar con la punta de los dedos humedecidos hasta que quede como una panqueca. Cocinar hasta que acaramele.”
(Flatten with the moistened tips of your fingers until like a pancake. Cook until caramelised.)
— excerpt from a recipe by Delia Hernández
Constructing an interface between the traumas of loss and the desire to remember, Hernández creates art in search of home that transcends psychic and geographic boundaries.
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers) 2021
installation view
Nadia Hernández
Protegida, nos llaman (tiernos, raspados, semi-licuados) / Protected, they call us (tender, scraped, semi-blended) 2021
oil, flashe, acrylic, felt, cotton, and ribbon on linen
2 parts, total: 215.0 × 150.0 cm approx
Nadia Hernández
Dulce de lechoza verde (procedimiento) / Green papaya sweet (procedure) 2021
cotton, linen, and corduroy on linen textile
145.0 × 100.0 cm approx
Nadia Hernández
Reposar / Rest 2021
oil, flashe, acrylic, cotton, and ribbon on linen
120.0 × 40.0 cm approx
Nadia Hernández
Revolver / Stir 2021
oil, flashe, acrylic, cotton, and ribbon on linen
120.0 × 40.0 cm approx
Nadia Hernández
De mantequilla a temperatura ambiente / Of butter at room temperature 2021
oil and acrylic on cotton
215.0 × 100.0 cm approx
Nadia Hernández
De agua de azahar y mantequilla a temperatura ambiente / Of orange blossom water and butter at room temperature 2021
paper cut
71.0 × 90.0 cm, framed
Nadia Hernández
De pan duro, de oro puro / Of stale bread, of pure gold 2021
paper cut
71.0 × 90.0 cm, framed
Nadia Hernández
No pude recordar la casa, pero pude recordar mis sueños / I couldn't remember the house, but I could remember my dreams 2021
paper cut
71.0 × 90.0 cm, framed
Nadia Hernández
Porque con la punta de los dedos se hacen cosas delicadas / Because with the tip of your fingers delicate things are made 2021
paper cut
71.0 × 90.0 cm, framed
Nadia Hernández
Sin medida / Without measure 2021
paper cut
71.0 × 90.0 cm, framed
Nadia Hernández
Entre todo hay cosas que no quiero ver / Among everything there are things that I don’t want to see 2021
paper cut
71.0 × 90.0 cm, framed
Nadia Hernández
Sol de mediodía (para el dulce) / Noon sun (for the sweet) 2021
oil on linen
102.0 × 84.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
Pesadilla #1 / Nightmare #1 2021
oil on linen
102.0 × 84.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
De frailejones y helechos / Of espeletia and ferns 2021
oil on linen
102.0 × 84.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
Retorno de la golondrina viajera / Return of the traveling swallow 2021
oil on linen
102.0 × 84.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
Con la punta de los dedos / With the tips of your fingers 2021
oil on linen
102.0 × 84.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
Otros triunfos / Other triumphs 2021
oil on linen
61.0 × 46.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
Varios ingredientes / Various ingredients 2021
oil on linen
61.0 × 46.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
Pesadilla #2 / Nightmare #2 2021
oil on linen
46.0 × 61.0 cm
Nadia Hernández
De un reposo / Of a rest 2021
oil on linen
46.0 × 61.0 cm
