Ricardo Miguel Hernández: no.174

When the memory turns to dust (2018-2021), no.174
Ricardo Miguel Hernández
12.5 x 9 cm
Unique Collage of found vintage photographs
£365

 

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Description

“I am a memory researcher. My work exists within the authenticity and the ambiguity of historical memory through different aesthetic exercises such as photography and video. I distance myself from the original document to turn it into a new artistic construct, a new historical memory. My work is anchored in a documentary base and I start from there to delve into those rescued stories. I remove the dust from the memories of archives that I find to articulate new constructions from the fragments of memories. Thus, I build a new story, more in tune with individual X than with the mega-stories of Cuban history.

I am interested in assembling the memories of the common individual. That anonymous character from whom the historical archive often starts which I then dust off and intervene. Indeed, I am a researcher of memories, and I use them to build a multidisciplinary metaphor. It all starts from that historical memory perpetuated in the photographic archive to explore all possible levels of representation and concept: I experiment with video, I look for new essences in photography, I work from historical poetics with the memory of the archive.”

Ricardo Miguel Hernández, Cuba

Ricardo Miguel Hernández studied at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta. Hernández has exhibited work in several solo exhibitions, such as Grenze – Arsenali Fotografici in Verona and in the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba in Havana. Group exhibitions include; KAOS 3rd Festival of Contemporary Collage in Kranj, PhotoEspaña 2020 and 2019 in Madrid, FestFoto Brazil in Porto Alegre, ESMoA El Segundo Museum of Art in Los Angeles, Foto Museo 4 Caminos in Mexico City, PAC Padiglione D Arte Contemporanea in Milano, ZAC Zisa Arti Contemporanee in Palermo, DOX Centre For Contemporary Art in Prague, 6th Contemporary Cuban Art Salon in Havana and others group shows in America, Europe and Cuba.

Residencies, scholarships and awards received include; Arte no es fácil residencie, Links Hall, Chicago´s Center for Independent Dance and Performance Arts; 21 Creation Study Scholarship Discontinuous Room Project, Visual Art Development Center CDAV, Havana; Scholarship Salvo Conducto, Espacio en Tránsito, Santiago de Chile; Special Mention SetUp, Bologna; First Prize, IV Biennial of Photography Alfredo Sarabia in memoriam, Pinar del Río; and prizes awarded in the II and IV International Festival of Video Art in Camagüey.

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