Alan Hernández (b. 1992, Oaxaca, México) is a visual artist graduated from the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca.  His work is always self-referential and contains a certain political charge and humor. His production focuses on sculpture and textiles which are combined with installation and action. Through this, he explores ideas such as the body, gender, race, sexuality and identity. He uses mainly textiles in his work because his mother was a seamstress and he uses this profession as a device to rethink his duty as a male. His processes start from a central idea and unconsciously these ideas are nuanced and transformed along with the formality of the piece to generate sculptural objects with abstract and ambivalent shapes. 

Alan Hernández (1992, Oaxaca, México) es un artista visual egresado de la Licenciatura en Artes de la Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca. Su trabajo es siempre autorreferencial, contiene cierta carga política y toques de humor. Su producción se enfoca en la escultura y el textil, medios que se combinan con la instalación y acción con los que explora ideas como el cuerpo, el género, la raza, la sexualidad y la identidad. Utiliza principalmente textiles en su trabajo porque su madre era costurera y usa esta profesión como un dispositivo para repensar su deber como varón. Sus procesos parten de una idea central e inconscientemente estas ideas se van matizando y transformando junto con la formalidad de la pieza para generar objetos escultóricos con formas abstractas y ambivalentes.

For an overview of all works in the exhibition, click here.